This is the kind of memory that Henry harvests when he delves into someone's mind. The trauma and pain and shock, twisted up and utilized as a weapon. With one like this, Amelia literally falling apart before his own eyes, he'd not even have to change a thing. She's giving him a knife that he could carve into her heart with, without even a second thought.
And yet he doesn't think of it in those terms for even a second.
He thinks of the lab. Everything that happened there, how he'd watch the children suffer the same way he had suffered. Those in power getting away with the same thing, viewing others as tools; the cycle continuing in numbers inked on skin. It had made him so angry.]
Bad people like you?
[Henry says with a toxic politeness.
He can't help Amelia. He knows that. This is a memory. But he can control a memory, and put it on pause, and ask to the Amelia who must be here, at least to some extent--the present one--a very baffling question, to the room as a whole:]
Amelia, why are you showing this to me, specifically?
good LORD cw; mention of child abuse
Terrible.
This is the kind of memory that Henry harvests when he delves into someone's mind. The trauma and pain and shock, twisted up and utilized as a weapon. With one like this, Amelia literally falling apart before his own eyes, he'd not even have to change a thing. She's giving him a knife that he could carve into her heart with, without even a second thought.
And yet he doesn't think of it in those terms for even a second.
He thinks of the lab. Everything that happened there, how he'd watch the children suffer the same way he had suffered. Those in power getting away with the same thing, viewing others as tools; the cycle continuing in numbers inked on skin. It had made him so angry.]
Bad people like you?
[Henry says with a toxic politeness.
He can't help Amelia. He knows that. This is a memory. But he can control a memory, and put it on pause, and ask to the Amelia who must be here, at least to some extent--the present one--a very baffling question, to the room as a whole:]
Amelia, why are you showing this to me, specifically?