[ And Kitty draws in breath to ask who, and then - Well, then she gets it. And she feels a sudden wash of shame. Because it's not hard to draw the line from they to the incident where they tried to take her away. Which Kitty was really, hideously nasty about. What if someone had said to her that - Well, no. When she'd been arrested, no one stuck their neck out to help her at all. But if there had been someone, and then someone had sneered at her about oh who can even fathom why anyone would have done that for you, and made fun, Kitty would hate them. Hate them forever. But Laura'd dialed her up to ask if she wanted a kitten, and God, Kitty feels so ashamed that all she can say is - ]
Oh.
[ And her voice is really small and really wobbly, and it wobbles even more when she says - ]
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Date: 2020-02-16 12:56 am (UTC)Oh.
[ And her voice is really small and really wobbly, and it wobbles even more when she says - ]
Well, that's really good.