Kathy was good at her jobHer response was only a...
Kathy was good at her jobHer response was
only a second late and only slightly incoherent
“You… She… she's still that…present? ”
The appalling truth tumbled from my lips“When she wants to beOur history bores herShe's
more dormant while I'm workingBut she's there, all rightSometimes I feel like she's as present
as I am My voice was only a whisper by the time I was done
“Wanderer!” Kathy exclaimed, horrified“Why didn't you tell me it was that bad? How long
has it been this way?”
“It's getting worseInstead of fading, she seems to be growing strongerIt's not as bad as tiffany inspired jewelry the
Healer's case yet–we spoke of Kevin, do you remember? She hasn't taken controlI
won't let that happen!” The pitch of my voice climbed
“Of course it won't happen,” she assured meBut if you're this… unhappy, you
should have told me earlierWe need to get you to a Healer
It took me a moment, emotionally distracted as I was, to understand
“A Healer? You want me toskip? ”
“No one would think badly of that choice, WandererIt's understood, if a host is defective –”
“Defective?She's not defectiveI'm too weak for this world!” My head fell into my hands
as the humiliation washed louis vuitton messenger bag through meFresh tears welled in my eyes
Kathy's arm settled around my shouldersI was struggling so hard to control my wild emotions
that I didn't pull away, though it felt too intimate
It bothered Melanie, tooShe didn't like being hugged by an alien
Of course Melanie was very much present in this moment, and unbearably smug as I finally
admitted to her powerIt was always harder to control her when I was
distracted by emotion like this
I tried to calm myself so that I would be able to put her in her placeer thought was faint but intelligibleHow much worse it was getting; bag by louis vuitton she
was strong enough to speak to me now whenever she wishedIt was as bad as that first minute
of consciousnessYou are not weak, and we both know thatOur kind are always so much the same,
butyou exceed the normYou're so brave it astonishes meYour past lives are a testament to
that
My past lives maybe, but this life? Where was my strength now?
“But humans are more individualized than we are,” Kathy went on“There's quite a range, and
some of them are much stronger than othersI truly believe that if anyone else had been put into
this host, Melanie would have crushed them in buy chanel bags daysMaybe it's an accident, maybe it's fate, but
it appears to me that the strongest of our kind is being hosted by the strongest of theirs
“Doesn't say much for our kind, does it?”
She heard the implication behind my words“She's not winning, Wandererou are this lovely
person beside meShe's just a shadow in the corner of your mind
“She speaks to me, KathyShe still thinks her own thoughtsShe still keeps her secrets
“But she doesn't speak for you, does she? I doubt I would be able to say as much in your placeI was feeling too miserable
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