Estimated reading time: 20 minutes; 4100 words
CommentsThe Story of S Pt19.
Essy with Mark, in the cafe where they first talked; he's assessing her readiness, she's barely holding it together; but she's going through with it.
It’s just … just that it’s so terribly, terribly cruel? So terribly, terribly hard to … to live with the idea; the reality that … that, if … if I decide to go through with this thing, that you … that you’ll all do … do such awful things to me … all … all the time. That that will be my whole life. Never … never anything else, ever again.
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