[He isn't sure what to think when it turns toward him, but he sits up to look back at it, wary but holding his ground. It doesn't seem that interested in him. Not nearly the way it has been with some of the others, at least. That's a good thing.
He grimaces at the words, though he otherwise doesn't immediately react. Easy as he is to provoke, the combination of what he's seen this thing do to others and the fact that it's currently hard for him to move make it much easier for him to stay put and say nothing. Inwardly, the response is much stronger. Guilt and fear and all the things he'd trained himself not to think about until it was stirred up again, not by the cat's mention, but by a voice... either hers, or just a girl, close enough. He can't claim that he'd recognise her voice now after all that time.
This time, he'll ask.]
When I was leaving that world, there was a voice. [Sebastian didn't hear it. Just him. Maybe the Cat. And maybe God.] What was it that I heard?
[Or who? It couldn't have actually been that girl. He saw her die 800 years ago so how could she be here? He's not sure whether there's a point in asking, whether he'll get any sort of useful answer, but if anyone would know, it's the thing he's talking to right now.]
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He grimaces at the words, though he otherwise doesn't immediately react. Easy as he is to provoke, the combination of what he's seen this thing do to others and the fact that it's currently hard for him to move make it much easier for him to stay put and say nothing. Inwardly, the response is much stronger. Guilt and fear and all the things he'd trained himself not to think about until it was stirred up again, not by the cat's mention, but by a voice... either hers, or just a girl, close enough. He can't claim that he'd recognise her voice now after all that time.
This time, he'll ask.]
When I was leaving that world, there was a voice. [Sebastian didn't hear it. Just him. Maybe the Cat. And maybe God.] What was it that I heard?
[Or who? It couldn't have actually been that girl. He saw her die 800 years ago so how could she be here? He's not sure whether there's a point in asking, whether he'll get any sort of useful answer, but if anyone would know, it's the thing he's talking to right now.]