here comes the supernatural anaesthetist

"She pushed me off a cliff to save my life. Even in petty altruism, she was cruel."

Statements like that showed what had stuck, and it wasn't the love.

The details swam, yes.

Who killed first, how, why?

Which head's rock? Whose bloody knife?

He couldn't, wouldn't, didn't blame for that trauma's misrememberance.

But one delivered detail always stood in relief:

"Leaving you, alone, in a world like this..."

The one situation where confession absolved.

"Do you not see, Minoth?"

Maybe Minoth saw. Maybe he didn't. Definitely, he thought, what did you want her to do? She was only human.