Not to mention everyone who'd died in the explosion they'd set off while Nico was leaving the Witchbreaker to her fate, or anyone else they'd killed in the near-infinite amount of time they had access to with their time machine. But she'd done the math and there were twenty girls who'd walked into the Wilders' basement and come out corpses -- and nineteen of them hadn't even been that after the Gibborim were through with them. Nineteen girls that their parents -- her parents -- had excised from reality for money and power and immortality for them and/or their children.
"...I planned it, though," she whispered. "After I wiped Mr. Wilder's memories and sent him back, I sat down and I planned what I'd do the next time we met any of our parents again. I didn't do it because they were bad people, I did it because they hurt me and I wanted to make them pay."
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Not to mention everyone who'd died in the explosion they'd set off while Nico was leaving the Witchbreaker to her fate, or anyone else they'd killed in the near-infinite amount of time they had access to with their time machine. But she'd done the math and there were twenty girls who'd walked into the Wilders' basement and come out corpses -- and nineteen of them hadn't even been that after the Gibborim were through with them. Nineteen girls that their parents -- her parents -- had excised from reality for money and power and immortality for them and/or their children.
"...I planned it, though," she whispered. "After I wiped Mr. Wilder's memories and sent him back, I sat down and I planned what I'd do the next time we met any of our parents again. I didn't do it because they were bad people, I did it because they hurt me and I wanted to make them pay."