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After Neil Perry’s death, Todd Anderson learns that grief follows.
“—Fucking idiots—”
He doesn’t remember deciding to move.
Only the sound of laughter, Neil’s name said wrong,
and his fist connecting before his fear could stop it.Welton does not soften after tragedy. It sharpens. Todd’s silence becomes an invitation, his stammer a spectacle, his closeness to Neil a weapon others use long after Neil is gone. He learns how to endure, how to walk away, how to swallow words, how to disappear just enough to be able to control himself, to not snap.
Until one day, he doesn’t.