[I don't know if I can accept that.]
A long pause followed. Erik waited, knowing it… she needed time to process.
[Maybe you're right,] she said. [It's just that... learning all of this at once... It was easier for me to think of myself as something not human. But knowing I actually was a human, that I had a daughter… but being unable to remember when she was born, when she brought her first boyfriend home… I don't remember who her father is… my parents…]
Erik ran a hand through his hair.
