[similarly, Once-ler looks to be in real pain; not just physically, but also emotionally as the hissing inside his head grows to near unmanageable levels. Annie's comments are just adding fuel to the fire.

("Just come on out now, don't make it any harder on yourself. No one would notice.")

you can't miss what you don't notice.]

You don’t know anything! You don’t even know her n - [his breath hitches.] What right do you have to talk about her when you don’t even know her name?!

[not that it even matters in a place like this...and he knows it. deep down, he knows that monster wasn't Roxy just as well as he should know that the drawling, saccharine voice contaminating his thoughts isn't really his mother.]

Why are you so mean?!