“You laughed so much. I heard it. It made me realize how very special you were to us, and how I wanted you to always be that perfect girl.” He licked his lips. “Then I hurt you in order to keep you that way. I have a lot of groveling to do, don’t I?” I said nothing as I studied him. He was so different. . . yet the same. So Seth. . . but Asylum. “I don’t deserve your forgiveness, my little firefly, and I won’t ask it of you. Not today. Today is for new beginnings. Today is for. . . us. I wish to dance.”
