She was hearing voices - we know that. We could watch her through

File: __hoshi_shouko_koshimizu_sachiko_and_shirasaka_koume_idolmaster_and_idolmaster_cinderella_girls__0145ac410a37b90b4dc624a0094ea4ef.jpg (98KB, 640x800px) Image search: [Google]

98KB, 640x800px

She was hearing voices - we know that. We could watch her through the kitchen window as she walked out of the house and toward the hot tub that she loved to sit in. And we could see her climb into the hot tub and sit down - her profile was to us - and we could see her laugh. She would laugh. She would giggle. Was she in pain - well, she was hearing voices. That's the point of the giggling. Something was talking to her.

And I think because of that happy response we saw from her, we told ourselves that she'd made friends with the voices, that the voices were beckoning her. They were coaxing her into their world and that she finally decided to join them. I don't know whether that's true or not. I'll tell you that it got me through the first three years of trying to figure out where [s4s]'s mind had gone.