Re: Ivy/Jack C.
You've never hurt a woman? You've never taken what's yours.. because you paid for that ring and that dress, and everything is yours? Men ARE possession, Earth, women, trivial scraps of paper containing the faces of dead men. You've never strangled someone while you fucked them, if only to silence the annoyance of their weeping? You've never pressed a face into a mirror and made them look, really look, at what they'd become?
[...] Even that Luke, she puts him on such a pedestal because he never frightened her. And what does he do? He throws her under the bus, he lets her take the conviction of crimes never committed and he says YES, YES, it was her.
[There's a long pause, but her typing continues soon enough.] Do you ever feel like its futile? Like you should take on everything, just to see if you can. I'd ask the Hood or the Bat, but we're not on speaking terms. They're disappointing me.