His rejected curvy secret
Faye remained in place, though I could see the strain building in her posture.
Her grip on the child was tight, not in control but in resistance, as though she were holding onto the only stable point she could still recognize within an unstable system.
The echo continued to pulse around her, but it no longer followed a single emotional direction. It fluctuated too frequently now, responding to overlapping states of grief, anger, and uncertainty.
That overlap created instability within the output, causing unpredictable shifts in intensity.
That instability was useful.
I stopped a short distance from her.
Close enough that my presence alone would be registered by the system.