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"How do you do it?" I blurted, interrupting his description of lights-out

"Do what?"

I searched for the proper words "Be so…cal to pull what I wanted to say from the air and shove it into ic?"

He considered ic A…difficult year At first, I was furious, and I vented er on you That’s one difference between us You sacrificed your ic No one stole it So you believe you have no one to be mad at but yourself"

"But--"

"Listen How could you be angry at yourself when you did the right thing? You can’t Instead, you sed that resent to be fine However, that e a hole in your soul"

"You’re an expert now? Do you do group therapy for your fellow prisoners?" Sarcasm laced my voice How could he kno I felt?

"I trained as a Sandseed Story Weaver Magic was but one of the o, before you turned into an evil Daviian Warper who tortured me" A small part of my mind was shocked by my cruel words, another part cheered er Good Now direct it at the proper place I said you believe you have no one to bla to you, I’ doormat" I spat his words back at hient and kind, but you’re hard on yourself You believe there was so you could have done better or smarter at Hubal If you had only been quicker, you wouldn’t have had toas if I had been slapped

"You need to realize you did your best in an extremely difficult situation Most people wouldn’t have survived at all Your anger is valid and needs to be directed at the men who forced you to make a sacrifice"

"Time’s up," my CO said

Devlen said in a rush, "Allow yourself to be furious at Ulrick and Tricky Purge it from your soul and corab my arm

"Because I will help you take the next step and fill the emptiness inside you"

"How?"

"Like I have You motivated me to be a better person and in the process the e or soe you to move past it"

The correctional officer hustled hts onstreets of Fulgor Devlen’s words swirled in ic and playing with h tiument would appear