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Tintirichka5 декабря 2025«How horrible to have had that tidal wave of thoughts and emotions crash in on him without any idea of what was causing it—and without anyone to rescue him or reassure him he wasn’t going crazy, or teach him how to build defenses! Or to hold his hand safely to their heart while he slept.
What if this had happened, and I hadn’t had C.B.? she thought, and knew the answer. She wouldn’t have survived. She’d have gone insane. Or committed suicide.
It was amazing that C.B. hadn’t, flung as he had been into a world of wrath and lasciviousness and malice before he was ready for it, exposed to the full vileness and viciousness of the world without any filter at all, a helpless victim of, and witness to, how many things he had no way of dealing with?
And with no one to help him, or explain what was happening, not even anyone he could tell—and everyone around him thinking he was a freak. Just like the Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was a wonder he hadn’t become a rapist or a serial killer.
But not only hadn’t he become a monster, he’d figured out how to defend himself against the voices’ unending onslaught—and reached out to help her when the same thing happened to her. He could have simply stayed silent. He’d had plenty of reasons to do that, not the least of which was her own kicking-and-screaming response when he tried to tell her, accusing him of everything from bugging her room to blocking Trent.
But he’d helped her in spite of that, and risked having his secret exposed in the process. And that was probably the most remarkable thing he’d done, because everything he’d said about what could happen if people found out he was telepathic was true».
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