[It helps to hear, a little bit — but still the guilt sits there, a dull, burning shame. If she had the context to understand it, it would be akin to the guilt of a child making a mistake, or a dog being scolded after tearing up furniture. A2 does not realize this. Instead she keeps up her dragging footsteps, feeling no alleviation of her symptoms.]
No. [The unerring flatness of her voice is to hide how inexplicably disappointed in herself at this, at the fact that she can't get her body to listen, that she doesn't have a better answer.] It could affec—
[Her voice skips like a scratched record.] —you too.
no subject
No. [The unerring flatness of her voice is to hide how inexplicably disappointed in herself at this, at the fact that she can't get her body to listen, that she doesn't have a better answer.] It could affec—
[Her voice skips like a scratched record.] —you too.