It didn’t occur to him until he stood in that crowd that there was no line between them. They’d been living side by side all along, only now they knew it. And for some of them, there had never been a line. They had never stopped being human. Sarah was fully both, monster and human, and now she was dead. Humans had killed her. Ridley thought he needed protection, that he needed to protect the people he loved, through his complicit silence. It had made him uncharacteristically betray his principles, thinking he and Laina would be spared. But when the gunshots came, he lost that expectation. That
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