[It's maybe a bit weird, but Laura appreciates that he's not trying to make his words pretty for her. People tend to either do exactly that or say things as crass and dirty as they can, but they rarely just give it to her straight like this. She likes that, even if it might have made her angry if it had been any other circumstance, because it's the way she prefers to talk to people - it's just that she never CAN.]
[But anything she might have said in response to those first few things is cut short when he brings up Maddy, and Laura's mind stops short for a moment. That ... no. Oh, god, why.]
Maddy's dead?
[Maddy, who she didn't love because she didn't love anyone, but who she had loved once and who was almost like a big sister to her, who she hadn't seen for years but had said that she could call her anytime, and once or twice she had.]
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[But anything she might have said in response to those first few things is cut short when he brings up Maddy, and Laura's mind stops short for a moment. That ... no. Oh, god, why.]
Maddy's dead?
[Maddy, who she didn't love because she didn't love anyone, but who she had loved once and who was almost like a big sister to her, who she hadn't seen for years but had said that she could call her anytime, and once or twice she had.]
He killed Maddy?