MARTYR: I could do it right now. Yes. It wouldn’t take much at all. Just a flick of my wrist. Like when an artist invites paint to a canvas. Ambrose is my canvas—my grotesque creation in the making. There’s something about him—something I can’t quite explain that makes it difficult for me. Difficult to consider following through and hurting him. Of course, the thoughts are plenty. There’s certainly no shortage of thoughts. But there’s something that always stops me before I actually go through with it—before I take the hammer in my hands or before I grip the knife’s handle to make good use of
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