[There are differences here, Mal knows. She resents them. The biggest difference being that for Dean, it was personal. For Mal, it was merely obsessive. She was particularly close to none of the people who were tortured and killed, but she was close to Hannibal even if only in the abstract. She understands the impulse; was never cruel, but knows the temptation to cruelty, knows the hunger.]
[That is the difference. But she listens anyway, because Dean is her friend, even if she can't quite meet his eyes. She's not human. She wonders sometimes if he remembers that.]
[ Private ]
[That is the difference. But she listens anyway, because Dean is her friend, even if she can't quite meet his eyes. She's not human. She wonders sometimes if he remembers that.]
What did you do?