It's all quite strange, I know. I wish I could say you'll get used to it, but it's been near two months and I'm still figuring it all out.
[She shakes her head to think of the 2020s. Another person almost two hundred years in the future from her.
When Harley calls her pretty, she blushes. She wants to argue, tell her how many times she's been called mad, how she nearly felt it in the weeks leading up to arriving here. But she wants to look good, in front of this accomplished woman, wants her to like her something terrible. So she nods, and focuses instead on discussion of the noose.]
No, it's not just to scare- I remember I couldn't have been older'n seven, watching one of the boys I grew up with swing. He kept his mouth shut, but we'd been on edge for days. Poor Peter- [She can still see it, the rope taught as it creaked.] Fagin told all of us that's what awaited us if we got caught. Short drop, sudden stop. It's what they do to lawbreakers. My brother Dodger, he's here, too, he's lucky he only got transported.
cw: hanging imagery
[She shakes her head to think of the 2020s. Another person almost two hundred years in the future from her.
When Harley calls her pretty, she blushes. She wants to argue, tell her how many times she's been called mad, how she nearly felt it in the weeks leading up to arriving here. But she wants to look good, in front of this accomplished woman, wants her to like her something terrible. So she nods, and focuses instead on discussion of the noose.]
No, it's not just to scare- I remember I couldn't have been older'n seven, watching one of the boys I grew up with swing. He kept his mouth shut, but we'd been on edge for days. Poor Peter- [She can still see it, the rope taught as it creaked.] Fagin told all of us that's what awaited us if we got caught. Short drop, sudden stop. It's what they do to lawbreakers. My brother Dodger, he's here, too, he's lucky he only got transported.