' alice, you should sleep. you look exhausted. '
( unprompted / inbox call / @godbecome
    â you think so? â she offers a smile, an attempt to dissuade her brother into thinking that sheâs entirely fine. of course, that isnât what he catches onto. she knew it wouldnât. if it wouldnât fool her, it wonât fool him.
    maybe itâs finally gotten to her: the coagulated stress of the situation as a whole. she ought to find comfort here; this place is essentially invisible to those on the outside. but, maybe that isnât the concern.Â
    â ... norman? are you really not going to wait for emma and ray to come back? â it isnât a question he wants to hear, nor is it one she wants to ask, but he could probably tell that this had been on her mind since the moment they left. â it isnât that I disagree with you, but you know emma better than anyone else. sheâll probably come back having completed her goal. â she raises her eyes, meeting those of her mirror image. â donât you want emma and ray here for when youâve finished what youâve started, anyhow? arenât you... arenât you worried about them? â















