43 Outtake: Sebastian 2 (1/2)

Evie Lewis saved herself.

Evie Lewis saved three other people.

Evie Lewis was closer to death than any of the other people who survived.

But she made it.

She was a miracle.

.

”I don't know their names.”

[”Did you kill anyone?”]

”No.”

[”Did you help her?”]

”She forced me to… to watch her.”

[”Anything else?”]

”She made me eat… what she ate.” So cold. Her voice was so cold. I could feel how disgusted she was with herself.

Eat what the Elegant Butcher ate.

I sighed.

[”What made you take to her diet?”]

”I wanted to live. It was the only way.”

I couldn't believe that Reynold's was making these assumptions, but I wouldn't doubt that it was possible that she had somehow been converted. Trauma was a weird thing; it could turn you into the perpetrator of pain, just because you didn't want to be the one feeling the pain all the time. You wanted to reciprocate.

[”Cannibalism…”]