Despite it all, Ruby does almost laugh as she shakes her head, "Most of the Afterans are peaceful. Most of our problems came from uh— this. This cat. And um. Neo, she was back. She..."

A table full of the false faces of the dead. All of her worst fears about herself spoken from the mouths of people she'd failed to save. The girl she loves and loses over and over again reduced to a puppet on a string once more. The man that doomed her morphed into the innocent boy that deserves so much better, bleeding on the ground because of her. Illusions, lies, and yet all too real.

"...really hates me."