[Stupid of him to think it was getting more bearable. Stupid to expect he'd seen the worst.]
It was-- I was her again. The pigtailed girl. [He swallows hard, trying to keep more bile down.] The one whose partner is on the wheel. The skeleton.
[He's seen the remains of explorers who met gruesome, awful fates. And he's seen worse - not all the people of Gotham died in the blast. Some went slow in the days after, of injury or infection. The first world Arthur knew was hell on earth.
And yet this was worse. Perhaps because it was precise, targeted torture. Perhaps because the girl did die. He's died several times now...
Tears are budding at his eyes, but they go unnoticed. Eric asked him, back at the investigation of Akko's death, how his visions work. Whether he was reliving the events. If he remembers the answer, that may well explain Arthur's state now.]
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It was-- I was her again. The pigtailed girl. [He swallows hard, trying to keep more bile down.] The one whose partner is on the wheel. The skeleton.
[He's seen the remains of explorers who met gruesome, awful fates. And he's seen worse - not all the people of Gotham died in the blast. Some went slow in the days after, of injury or infection. The first world Arthur knew was hell on earth.
And yet this was worse. Perhaps because it was precise, targeted torture. Perhaps because the girl did die. He's died several times now...
Tears are budding at his eyes, but they go unnoticed. Eric asked him, back at the investigation of Akko's death, how his visions work. Whether he was reliving the events. If he remembers the answer, that may well explain Arthur's state now.]