[Oddly enough, that seems to make her face light up with a relieved smile. Weight is lifted off her shoulders, and she lets out the smallest exhale in place of a sigh.]
Then what I'm about to say may not sound all that awful. I was thinking of offering him to the monster that needs souls to survive. I know it's terrible and not my place, but I worry about Eddie and the other children. And myself, since he knows that he looks identical to my closest friend. I don't want him to use that against me.
[She's guilty for ever entertaining the idea, but she knows that sometimes the only choices you have to make are bad ones. But you still have to choose something anyway.]
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Then what I'm about to say may not sound all that awful. I was thinking of offering him to the monster that needs souls to survive. I know it's terrible and not my place, but I worry about Eddie and the other children. And myself, since he knows that he looks identical to my closest friend. I don't want him to use that against me.
[She's guilty for ever entertaining the idea, but she knows that sometimes the only choices you have to make are bad ones. But you still have to choose something anyway.]