"The school wasn't safe for those of us who were human, they decided. Some parents came to pick their kids up. Others... well, some didn't care. But the school tried. Loaded the kids on a bus to take to the airport and..."
He has to set the cup aside and he wraps himself around Balthier then.
"I know the scent of burning flesh. I know the screams of my friends and classmates as they died. The way the noises petered out to nothing but the crackle and burn after the explosion. The assholes, a group called the purifiers, for got their hands on an RPG and blew up the bus. I was lucky, my parents were going to come in specifically to pick me up. I had no place there because I was only human, but it was the human kids who died. Then, not long after, they came back. Killed Laurie with a sniper round so they could attack the school, deemed her the greatest threat. My friend Jay, he... he wished he wasn't a mutant and cut his own wings off because of his grief over keeping his own powers. Was driven to it by the people who murdered Laurie right in front of Josh. And later when Jay went to confront them, they shot him too."
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"The school wasn't safe for those of us who were human, they decided. Some parents came to pick their kids up. Others... well, some didn't care. But the school tried. Loaded the kids on a bus to take to the airport and..."
He has to set the cup aside and he wraps himself around Balthier then.
"I know the scent of burning flesh. I know the screams of my friends and classmates as they died. The way the noises petered out to nothing but the crackle and burn after the explosion. The assholes, a group called the purifiers, for got their hands on an RPG and blew up the bus. I was lucky, my parents were going to come in specifically to pick me up. I had no place there because I was only human, but it was the human kids who died. Then, not long after, they came back. Killed Laurie with a sniper round so they could attack the school, deemed her the greatest threat. My friend Jay, he... he wished he wasn't a mutant and cut his own wings off because of his grief over keeping his own powers. Was driven to it by the people who murdered Laurie right in front of Josh. And later when Jay went to confront them, they shot him too."
The people he had loved kept dying.
"We buried so many people."