[Girl starts to make a disagreeing noise, but cuts herself off to let Sharon finish in peace. Death hadn't been an end to anything for the Girl, just a continuation of misery until her spirit had been allowed back into the mortal plane. But she knows she had been a special case in her world. Maybe the people here were used to death equating to peace.
But what Sharon is telling her is familiar. The kind of familiar that she tries to keep shoved in a box in the back of her mind.]
I know it does. I just thought- well, I thought you meant it gave you something worse than the memories. Like that the gods would do something else, a punishment or something. The memories...I always thought that was just the price of coming back, no matter where you were from.
[She takes a breath and her voice becomes muffled as she sits back away from the device.]
Did no one ever came back from death in your world?
voice;
But what Sharon is telling her is familiar. The kind of familiar that she tries to keep shoved in a box in the back of her mind.]
I know it does. I just thought- well, I thought you meant it gave you something worse than the memories. Like that the gods would do something else, a punishment or something. The memories...I always thought that was just the price of coming back, no matter where you were from.
[She takes a breath and her voice becomes muffled as she sits back away from the device.]
Did no one ever came back from death in your world?