"Bone infection," she says after she pauses for just a moment, but then--
"About that." She says it like she's just talking about the weather, because she's tired, because she's tired and the thing she drank - it's relaxing and she's not in pain and it's just made everything better. She's got that sort of drunken-stream-of-consciousness thing going, where you sort of talk and talk and then it ends up just being what it is. "I know I didn't tell you why I was here. I didn't grow up here or anything. There were these guys who were following me back in college and I didn't know why, right? And my dad gave me this phone number and was like... You call them if something happens and I didn't know what else to do."
She sighs. "So I call, and then this guy comes in his pickup truck and he's all acting like it's super important that I go with him and he brought me up here from Boston, and he took my phone away, and said I shouldn't tell anyone who I am, and so my name's not Emily. You should know. Because... because, they found me, and- and so that's already happened, right?" That's how she looks at it. This happened because whoever was looking for her found her, and that's why she'd gotten taken. Why she was here now. "Jason knows, and Aoife knew me from home, but that's it. Emily's my mom's name."
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"About that." She says it like she's just talking about the weather, because she's tired, because she's tired and the thing she drank - it's relaxing and she's not in pain and it's just made everything better. She's got that sort of drunken-stream-of-consciousness thing going, where you sort of talk and talk and then it ends up just being what it is. "I know I didn't tell you why I was here. I didn't grow up here or anything. There were these guys who were following me back in college and I didn't know why, right? And my dad gave me this phone number and was like... You call them if something happens and I didn't know what else to do."
She sighs. "So I call, and then this guy comes in his pickup truck and he's all acting like it's super important that I go with him and he brought me up here from Boston, and he took my phone away, and said I shouldn't tell anyone who I am, and so my name's not Emily. You should know. Because... because, they found me, and- and so that's already happened, right?" That's how she looks at it. This happened because whoever was looking for her found her, and that's why she'd gotten taken. Why she was here now. "Jason knows, and Aoife knew me from home, but that's it. Emily's my mom's name."