I think a lot about the Apex kids. I doubt I was a great "authority" figure.
But sometimes I think about nights where younger, newer kids would wake me up at some ungodly hour, telling me they're homesick. About sports in the mall's food court, and making me keep score for them all.
Lucy. I think about Lucy a lot. She was probably only... 7? 8? When she hurt her eye with the harpoon pack. I had the memory of it so clear today. The panic that filled Grace and I when we heard her wailing for us. There was nothing we could do to fix it, just made sure the wound healed and told her the eyepatch made her look cool. I was always bandaging some wound or gash or worse.
I don't know... If theres some chance there are stray Apex kids out there in this world. But if there are, um. I? Wish I could have been a better caretaker for all of you. I had fun with you all sure. Don't get me wrong, I cherish the good times.
But sometimes I worry I fucked all of you up severely. That Grace and I pushed our feelings of parental neglect and abandonment too hard onto you all. It was messed up. We were messed up.
The Apex was a horrible, horrible idea that I helped cultivate. And I regret it.
Go live a normal, happy life. For me. For Grace. For yourselves.
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