( It's too easy to imagine that same sharp look from a different situation, a different time, a different place.
Edmund clutches the crutches in one hand, smothering the puerile urge to let them fall to the ground again. Because he knows he's going to go mad very soon if his realities are already starting to flood into one another. )
You like opening parcels, don't you? Go ahead. ( If the words are sharper than they should have been, he's not going to apologize for it. He's ready for a fight, and he'll keep pushing until she starts to push back. )
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Edmund clutches the crutches in one hand, smothering the puerile urge to let them fall to the ground again. Because he knows he's going to go mad very soon if his realities are already starting to flood into one another. )
You like opening parcels, don't you? Go ahead. ( If the words are sharper than they should have been, he's not going to apologize for it. He's ready for a fight, and he'll keep pushing until she starts to push back. )