[Maelle waits, patiently, for him to ramble. To try and wrestle with what she's saying. It's difficult. She knows. It hurts to see him so unsettled, but after they get through this, everything will be beautiful again.]
They were. It's... very complicated. I can show it to you, some day. What life beyond here looks like, where I'm really from. [She owes it to Lune, too.] There's the life I lived here, and the life I lived there.
[She smiles, a little sad.]
The one here is so much better. [She can breathe. Speak. See, with both her eyes. She can run and laugh and live and no one recoils in horror and no one blames her anything and no one dies anymore.] So much of that is because of you. You were... everything I could ever want in a father, in a brother. I had so much love.
[How could anyone expect her to leave this all behind? And for what? A life of cruelty and suffering.]
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They were. It's... very complicated. I can show it to you, some day. What life beyond here looks like, where I'm really from. [She owes it to Lune, too.] There's the life I lived here, and the life I lived there.
[She smiles, a little sad.]
The one here is so much better. [She can breathe. Speak. See, with both her eyes. She can run and laugh and live and no one recoils in horror and no one blames her anything and no one dies anymore.] So much of that is because of you. You were... everything I could ever want in a father, in a brother. I had so much love.
[How could anyone expect her to leave this all behind? And for what? A life of cruelty and suffering.]