( the pause here isn't to grasp for a lie, but because the truth is so utterly strange, foreign to him, that the word seems to get caught in his throat.
he did die, but-
it makes no sense. people don't just come back from the dead. that's not right. )
- I died.
( he blurts it out with more force than he means to, needs to. a quick-fire burst rather than a measured response. )
no subject
( the pause here isn't to grasp for a lie, but because the truth is so utterly strange, foreign to him, that the word seems to get caught in his throat.
he did die, but-
it makes no sense. people don't just come back from the dead. that's not right. )
- I died.
( he blurts it out with more force than he means to, needs to. a quick-fire burst rather than a measured response. )