Because Cora knows what happens when you see someone die and call the cops. They keep you there for hours, hours that she and Yifei really can’t spare if they want to get out of here before a killer catches up to them. And you try to leave and they throw around phrases like “impeding an investigation” and you know it’s bullshit but you’re so hardwired to be a people pleaser, to cooperate, to cower at men with loud voices and guns, that you sit there and drink water from a Styrofoam cup even though it never feels like enough. You cry and they push tissue boxes at you and say nice things but you
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