[ she can't keep the horror from her own voice. she knew that Maxwell Roth was a dangerous man, but they have spent the better part of their adolescence rubbing shoulders with dangerous people. this goes beyond dangerous and into - she doesn't know. she doesn't know. what kind of man sets fire to his own theatre while the place is full of people? ]
The man must have been mad.
[ she almost hopes that it was madness; Evie can't quite wrap her brain around the idea of doing something like that while of sound mind.
it hits her then, that her brother could very well have died in that blaze. she feels ill. ] What were you even doing there?
[ the last she heard, Jacob had only robbed the man's shrine to the Outsider, because Jacob has never been able to resist poking something with a stick when he should probably just leave well enough alone. how did he go from that to killing Roth while the theatre burned down around him? and how did she manage to miss it? ]
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[ she can't keep the horror from her own voice. she knew that Maxwell Roth was a dangerous man, but they have spent the better part of their adolescence rubbing shoulders with dangerous people. this goes beyond dangerous and into - she doesn't know. she doesn't know. what kind of man sets fire to his own theatre while the place is full of people? ]
The man must have been mad.
[ she almost hopes that it was madness; Evie can't quite wrap her brain around the idea of doing something like that while of sound mind.
it hits her then, that her brother could very well have died in that blaze. she feels ill. ] What were you even doing there?
[ the last she heard, Jacob had only robbed the man's shrine to the Outsider, because Jacob has never been able to resist poking something with a stick when he should probably just leave well enough alone. how did he go from that to killing Roth while the theatre burned down around him? and how did she manage to miss it? ]