Regan belatedly notices how tightly her fingers were clenching, and lets her husband pull her hand away.
She doesn't let her other hand tighten on the arm of the chair. She keeps control, now.
Everything still. Still as a stone. A childhood litany her mother taught her: I will be a stone, and nothing will touch me, because my center is steady stone. You fall back on these things, sometimes.
She breathes in and out, and her hands do not tremble, and she does not let them clench.
Effects.
Gabriel's voice: Just as they experimented on an entire planet with the Pax, they experimented on our daughter. And she is almost too caught up in her own shock to notice his reaction, but not quite. Not quite.
"What do you mean." Too flat, too thready with stress and horror; she can't make it question instead of demand.
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Date: 2005-11-24 03:38 am (UTC)She doesn't let her other hand tighten on the arm of the chair. She keeps control, now.
Everything still. Still as a stone. A childhood litany her mother taught her: I will be a stone, and nothing will touch me, because my center is steady stone. You fall back on these things, sometimes.
She breathes in and out, and her hands do not tremble, and she does not let them clench.
Effects.
Gabriel's voice: Just as they experimented on an entire planet with the Pax, they experimented on our daughter. And she is almost too caught up in her own shock to notice his reaction, but not quite. Not quite.
"What do you mean." Too flat, too thready with stress and horror; she can't make it question instead of demand.