Unable to quarantine the scream any longer, she unleashes it. He steps back as she does, looking frightened. The scream is animal. Ancestral. The scream of the first woman in the first dirt wounded by the first man. “That was part of your plan, wasn’t it, James? My freakishness was part of your fucking plan! I bet Zoe was the same way. I bet she felt like an outcast until you came along and made her feel special. I bet you made her feel like she couldn’t connect with people her own age because she was just too mature, too sensitive, too intelligent. Different from the rest because she was
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