It wasn’t what we thought. Doc wasn’t hurting anyone on purpose; he was just trying to save — GET OUT OF MY HEAD! I shrieked. As I thrust her away from me — gagged her so that I wouldn’t have to bear her justifications — I realized how weak she’d grown in all these months of friendliness. How much I’d been allowing. Encouraging. It was almost too easy to silence her. As easy as it should have been from the beginning.
