[Ever since training started, she has kept even more silent than usual, only ever sharing her thoughts with Griffith when she dared creep to his side for some bare comfort. It now seems to her that the people managing this game have been unkind, sending her to the wilderness alone when others were clearly permitted friends or family from home.
She intends to explain herself to Hollingworth, shyness overcome by the need to communicate—and she finds she can't. She... has her own thoughts, of course, but anything she attempts to project remains flat and heavy in her mind, and her eyes grow wide with fear when the realisation hits. They've taken it from her, the people running this game: they've taken the only thing that was ever hers.
She feels the tears coursing down her cheeks before she opens her mouth in a desperate attempt to do what she has never done—but of course, it fails, and nothing but a high, strained squeak sounds from her damnable throat. It's a small cry of upset that comes next, as she thrusts one palm roughly against her temple, the action more than enough to communicate her distress even though her body denies her that ability.
In light of her loss, she forgets Hollingworth, the terror of never being able to communicate again taking her in a violent grip.]
TEAM THIRTEEN
She intends to explain herself to Hollingworth, shyness overcome by the need to communicate—and she finds she can't. She... has her own thoughts, of course, but anything she attempts to project remains flat and heavy in her mind, and her eyes grow wide with fear when the realisation hits. They've taken it from her, the people running this game: they've taken the only thing that was ever hers.
She feels the tears coursing down her cheeks before she opens her mouth in a desperate attempt to do what she has never done—but of course, it fails, and nothing but a high, strained squeak sounds from her damnable throat. It's a small cry of upset that comes next, as she thrusts one palm roughly against her temple, the action more than enough to communicate her distress even though her body denies her that ability.
In light of her loss, she forgets Hollingworth, the terror of never being able to communicate again taking her in a violent grip.]