[He can't find the strength within himself to reply.
Try as he might to keep it from happening, this storm has been brewing for months on end, and this is the tipping point.
He had started out with the hope that he would someday become a good person, or at least someone better. Things were going okay, they were going just fine save for a few setbacks, but then it happened. He pulled the trigger and it was all gone, that man's life and the last of Asher's own innocence. Watching a life leave a body is the kind of horrifying experience one can never forget, much less so when the hands of the dead were once around your own neck, and you could have been the one on the ground if things hadn't gone so smoothly.
Now all he has is survivor's guilt, but at the very least, he survived.
The ground becomes harder to see as his lashes grow wet.]
no subject
Try as he might to keep it from happening, this storm has been brewing for months on end, and this is the tipping point.
He had started out with the hope that he would someday become a good person, or at least someone better. Things were going okay, they were going just fine save for a few setbacks, but then it happened. He pulled the trigger and it was all gone, that man's life and the last of Asher's own innocence. Watching a life leave a body is the kind of horrifying experience one can never forget, much less so when the hands of the dead were once around your own neck, and you could have been the one on the ground if things hadn't gone so smoothly.
Now all he has is survivor's guilt, but at the very least, he survived.
The ground becomes harder to see as his lashes grow wet.]