“I hate him, Topaz. I hate him more than I hate anyone, and that’s saying a lot, because I hate a lot of people . . . but him the most. It wasn’t just me; I was just the last one before he decided we couldn’t stay alive to talk anymore. Before that, there were at least two of us he did it to. We were part of this after-school group, and I was too young and too stupid to understand what was happening.
