didn’t want you to be alone after I’m gone. I didn’t want you to feel that pain. But I should have thought about it more. About what it meant.” This sweet, ridiculous human. I got the sense that this whole experience had overwhelmed him, and he was full of jittery, adrenaline-fuelled nerves. Humans sometimes had these intense emotional releases, I was sure. The mabs’ presence didn’t help—their gazes were making my own head feel heavy. “My sweet.”
