[That would explain why he couldn't remember Auntie's face then. Not really. She'd always been amorphous in her own right, a woman who had taken him in-- them in- and then gotten sick from the strain of it shortly after. But if the Voidfish had eaten Lup, it was no wonder that it had taken his parents' faces, too. The memories of having another baby in the room with him, his parents taking care of someone else, not just him? It would have been a bigger discrepancy and the Void--Fisher would have had to worked harder at keeping him from thinking about it.
Taako huffs at her shrug and cocoons further into his blankets.]
Yeah, dumb question like I thought.
[He goes quiet and bites his bottom lip, worrying it between his teeth. His memories were back now, but sometimes it still felt like a jumbled puzzle in his head where all the pieces were flipped upside down until someone else turned it over.]
...He was taller'n me as I am now, I know that much. I guess we look like Mom, but he's the one we got our eye color from. I remember- [Fuck, why is this so hard to talk about? That one word sticks in his throat like he's pulling it out of tar.] - I remember that much from when he was taking me to the doctor when I fuckin' stabbed myself in the leg like an idiot.
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Taako huffs at her shrug and cocoons further into his blankets.]
Yeah, dumb question like I thought.
[He goes quiet and bites his bottom lip, worrying it between his teeth. His memories were back now, but sometimes it still felt like a jumbled puzzle in his head where all the pieces were flipped upside down until someone else turned it over.]
...He was taller'n me as I am now, I know that much. I guess we look like Mom, but he's the one we got our eye color from. I remember- [Fuck, why is this so hard to talk about? That one word sticks in his throat like he's pulling it out of tar.] - I remember that much from when he was taking me to the doctor when I fuckin' stabbed myself in the leg like an idiot.