Umbridge. But Warren didn't dare voice that name. Instead he just curled his lip back and shook his head. Best feign disgust, best break the heart of a puppet, rather than risk being turned in and subjected to Imperio himself. If there was anything left to know after Karla's own mental infection, he'd say it. He remembered too much even now. Knew students who were leaning toward defecting and running to the resistance.
He couldn't risk doing anything less than break her heart again.
"You can feel it, can't you? Somewhere in the back of your head, there's that doubt, chewing at you. Did you cry, Karla, when Raven killed that girl in detention? Do you catch yourself feeling pangs of regret and not knowing where they come from?"
He shook his head, his voice cold and carefully hollow.
"You dance because Imperio is telling you to. You haven't seen the light, you've simply been blinded by a flash in the dark."
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Umbridge. But Warren didn't dare voice that name. Instead he just curled his lip back and shook his head. Best feign disgust, best break the heart of a puppet, rather than risk being turned in and subjected to Imperio himself. If there was anything left to know after Karla's own mental infection, he'd say it. He remembered too much even now. Knew students who were leaning toward defecting and running to the resistance.
He couldn't risk doing anything less than break her heart again.
"You can feel it, can't you? Somewhere in the back of your head, there's that doubt, chewing at you. Did you cry, Karla, when Raven killed that girl in detention? Do you catch yourself feeling pangs of regret and not knowing where they come from?"
He shook his head, his voice cold and carefully hollow.
"You dance because Imperio is telling you to. You haven't seen the light, you've simply been blinded by a flash in the dark."