Its her fathers cold eyes that Lydia remembers most.
Memory isnt always the most reliable source of information.
Every time we think back on a memory, were inadvertently rewriting it in our minds.
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They just need to wait it out.
Like the Filthy Woman, Lydia mentions that hunger is a gift.
It keeps her strong, it reminds her of her survival instincts.
Its when you go soft, she says, that people die.
He listens as Lydia recounts a moment when Matthias, a man in her old group, starts panicking.
The tattoo, even, shifts from her mothers arm to her fathers.
Even the cuts and bruises all over her body were supposedly inflicted to make her strong.
Her memory begins to warp even further as she looks back to the aftermath of Matthias death.
Im going to do what I want.
His beard now returns fully formed while Alpha is bald.
She remembers her father stepping in to save her and thats how he ended up dead.
A later visit from Henry proves that, too, was a lie.
The next morning, Daryl, who watched the whole midnight walkabout, finds her back in her cell.
Shes more cooperative and he now feels more for her due to their shared trauma.
Kelly, however, began to break down.
Connie stays behind with Kelly to continue the search, but a Whisperer is watching from the brush.
Keeping a girl away from her abuser may now longer be an option.
