flipping her fins doesn't get avery desroscher far (syren) wrote in bellumlogs,
To say that Avery felt awkward as she spelled out the names of strangers' lost loved ones was an understatement, to say the least. But she performed the task at hand in spite of her growing discomfort and sympathy for these people she barely knew. With a deep intake of breath, she said "Patrice Desroscher" when Madison prompted as she moved the pointer around the board, voicing his name out of a sense of solidarity. "He was my husband," she explained with an uncharacteristic lack of pep in her voice, as if their identical surnames hadn't been an indication of their familiarity.