[ 20 years... McGillis sometimes imagines an alternate world in which he hadn't been blonde. In that world, would he have grown up to rule the red light district? Or would he have died one way or another far before reaching maturity? ]
It was only a year for me - until adoption, anyway. My father bought me from that place, so you can imagine how the rest of my childhood went.
[ This makes Celeste the second person to find out about that part of his life - and the first he's telling entirely voluntarily. Dreamscapes helped force his hand with Izou, but this is his choice to tell somebody who will... get it, more than anybody else he knows could. ]
cw: discussion of rape continued
[ 20 years... McGillis sometimes imagines an alternate world in which he hadn't been blonde. In that world, would he have grown up to rule the red light district? Or would he have died one way or another far before reaching maturity? ]
It was only a year for me - until adoption, anyway. My father bought me from that place, so you can imagine how the rest of my childhood went.
[ This makes Celeste the second person to find out about that part of his life - and the first he's telling entirely voluntarily. Dreamscapes helped force his hand with Izou, but this is his choice to tell somebody who will... get it, more than anybody else he knows could. ]