Coming back for yet another reread, and it finally clicked--
Right now I feel like I've
got no skin on; I can't block anything out."<<
Is that low-level empathy? Just enough to have caught the senior researcher's guilt during the accident and be too overwhelmed to process it as not-his-own?
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Date: 2023-01-01 03:54 pm (UTC)Coming back for yet another reread, and it finally clicked--
Is that low-level empathy? Just enough to have caught the senior researcher's guilt during the accident and be too overwhelmed to process it as not-his-own?
Oh, Ethan, not your damn fault.