As he saw Nate jump up, hands raised, Sam shook his head and reached out a hand, feeling guilty for shocking him. Though right now, he didn't want to be touched; he couldn't be loved when he was such a monster.
"No, you don't understand. I have done something awful. I...T-the Voice just told me." Deperately wiping at his eyes, he tried to calm himself so he could actually tell Nate. Not that he wanted to say the words, sure that he was going to be considered the scum of the Earth, but...Nate deserved to know what he lived with.
Mia jumped into Sam's lap as he sat and he stroked her, stayed staring down at her as he spoke. "Do...you know people have been falling ill? With a disease called the Blight...well, it's awful, and one of my friends might actually die from it. No one knew how it had started, and a lot of people...a lot of p-people blamed Ascended..." His voice started to become tear logged again and Sam lowered his face into his hand and took a few breaths.
"I told them it wasn't. I didn't think we had. I thought...they were just thinking that because we're different. But...b-but the Voice...just told me..." He curled down, pressing his forehead to Mia; when he spoke again it was muffled. "It was me. Or...well, all of us."
Samuel
I want you so badly
But you could be anyone
