[ Not a question. She doesn't pause to let him ask questions anyway. ]
Before we stopped? [ The way she phrases it knocks loose some of his suspicion. Instead, there's a pit in his stomach, a feeling like he'd missed a step going down. ] You mean...before we stopped the Hunger?
[ She hadn't phrased it like that, but that's what she had to have meant.
Right? ]
Since we stopped...running. [ Not the same thing. The pit grows. ] Why would we stop? Why would you...age so much in ten years?
[ She'd been young. They all were. Are. ]
You're not making any sense. [ Magnus points out, shaking his head firmly. ]
no subject
[ Not a question. She doesn't pause to let him ask questions anyway. ]
Before we stopped? [ The way she phrases it knocks loose some of his suspicion. Instead, there's a pit in his stomach, a feeling like he'd missed a step going down. ] You mean...before we stopped the Hunger?
[ She hadn't phrased it like that, but that's what she had to have meant.
Right? ]
Since we stopped...running. [ Not the same thing. The pit grows. ] Why would we stop? Why would you...age so much in ten years?
[ She'd been young. They all were. Are. ]
You're not making any sense. [ Magnus points out, shaking his head firmly. ]