Tally shivers, both at the touch and the memory. The skin is, of course, clean and unbroken, without even a tan line where her cuff used to be. Pretties don't tan unevenly.
"Shay came up with that," she says. "The cutting. She couldn't figure out how Zane and I were getting so bubbly while she was still so pretty-minded, so that was her solution." It's a hard memory to dredge up, but she can get flashes of it: Shay and her pretty Cutters standing in a circle at the park in the rain, knives in their hands. "It's partly my fault," she admits. "I didn't tell her Zane and I had the cure. Or thought we did."
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Date: 2024-07-28 09:20 pm (UTC)"Shay came up with that," she says. "The cutting. She couldn't figure out how Zane and I were getting so bubbly while she was still so pretty-minded, so that was her solution." It's a hard memory to dredge up, but she can get flashes of it: Shay and her pretty Cutters standing in a circle at the park in the rain, knives in their hands. "It's partly my fault," she admits. "I didn't tell her Zane and I had the cure. Or thought we did."