Lyric thought about the events that had transpired.
Why were they all being so nice to him? He didn’t know.
Were they going to hurt him afterwards? Probably.
Would they leave? Probably.
Would he hate himself for holding onto the little thread of hope they gave him? Definitely.
Claire was being nice. That didn’t bother Lyric; he was used to her being nice to him. She didn’t care that Lyric was weird; she found it amusing, as she put it. He didn’t care that she was using him as entertainment.
However, what threw him out of whack was Roland being nice.
Roland was never pleasant.
He was mean. Horrible. Borderline cruel.
People always got hurt around him.
Anthony.
Wendel.
Gilbert.
Hell, even Lyric had been hurt by him before. It had only happened twice, but both those beatings had
