[The words break - he feels, abruptly, acutely, like he did when he was small, huddling in the corners of white-walled rooms and counting down over and over again until he could make the monsters go away.]
[Except there were no monsters. He grew up fine. There's nothing in his head. There never has been.]
[(But he can feel It like a weight, pressing on the back of his neck.)]
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[The words break - he feels, abruptly, acutely, like he did when he was small, huddling in the corners of white-walled rooms and counting down over and over again until he could make the monsters go away.]
[Except there were no monsters. He grew up fine. There's nothing in his head. There never has been.]
[(But he can feel It like a weight, pressing on the back of his neck.)]
[(Watching.)]