He kept saying that word, traitor, hammering it in.
“Unless I take this gun and shoot that woman, who you’re convinced is a member of the Nine,” I guessed what he was getting at.
Oh yeah, what Brian just said was such a hammering of verbal brutality that I forgot that it’s also intense emotional manipulation and blackmail.
This is probably a chapter certain Brian haters point to, while ignoring or downplaying just how much his mind is compromised right now.
“Guess I had the wrong impression of you,” he said. The emotion in his tone was so different that it caught me off guard. Almost contemplative.
“Huh.”
If I thought of it as him emotionally closing down, it almost fit with the impression I associated with Grue. At the same time, it didn’t quite jibe with what I was seeing. Again, I felt that distinct discomfort.
I’m feeling it too and I’m not even there.
Though I may have more of a conscious idea of why.
Is this how I lose my mind?
At least she’s not quite as compromised as Brian and to a lesser extent Lisa seem to be, just yet.
I shrugged. “I guess you did.”
I carefully holstered the gun, as if hiding it could keep it from coming up again in conversation.
At least it’s a non-verbal statement that reinforces the message of “no, no one’s using this”.
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