Everything starts to sink in then. The panic of the situation had held him together, urging him to just get out of the box, and now...as Howard says it, Cedric remembers it. They're not supposed to be alive.
Howard died. Cedric failed to protect him. He'd held the cold hand, and it had been one of the most sickening feelings of his life. All the more miraculous that he's holding a warm one now.
"Not for long." Cedric sounds like a broken man, on the edge of tears. "The rescuers arrived just after. Only a little too late. But we were surrounded by those monsters, a whole army of them. It was hopless---I tried, but they surrounded me. They were going to eat me."
He shudders, remembering those last seconds of fear. "I exploded before they could."
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Everything starts to sink in then. The panic of the situation had held him together, urging him to just get out of the box, and now...as Howard says it, Cedric remembers it. They're not supposed to be alive.
Howard died. Cedric failed to protect him. He'd held the cold hand, and it had been one of the most sickening feelings of his life. All the more miraculous that he's holding a warm one now.
"Not for long." Cedric sounds like a broken man, on the edge of tears. "The rescuers arrived just after. Only a little too late. But we were surrounded by those monsters, a whole army of them. It was hopless---I tried, but they surrounded me. They were going to eat me."
He shudders, remembering those last seconds of fear. "I exploded before they could."