[All that earns him is a withering look and an equally disappointed noise in his throat.]
So you say, but that is not how things went. Your actions prove your intent more than anything -- because you just could not let things lie, in case she really did win. You had thought ahead for the future... far more than Lahabrea or I could have ever hoped to in our respective frames of mind.
I, too, said some scathing things to her following your death. Tried to plan my moves as carefully as I could, because one mistake meant the death of our dream. But... there was also a reason I sent her back to Elpis, one I could not have possibly understood until that very moment in time. Any earlier, and it would have been ignored like an irritating stray thought. Any later, and it would have been too late for me; I would have been returned to the lifestream with no hope of reconciliation.
'Tis the same with you, here and now. You cannot understand my reasons right now, as you are, and I cannot make you understand them. But, time-allowing, perhaps you will. Perhaps you'll have seen what you need to see to know the answer I have come to at duty's end.
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So you say, but that is not how things went. Your actions prove your intent more than anything -- because you just could not let things lie, in case she really did win. You had thought ahead for the future... far more than Lahabrea or I could have ever hoped to in our respective frames of mind.
I, too, said some scathing things to her following your death. Tried to plan my moves as carefully as I could, because one mistake meant the death of our dream. But... there was also a reason I sent her back to Elpis, one I could not have possibly understood until that very moment in time. Any earlier, and it would have been ignored like an irritating stray thought. Any later, and it would have been too late for me; I would have been returned to the lifestream with no hope of reconciliation.
'Tis the same with you, here and now. You cannot understand my reasons right now, as you are, and I cannot make you understand them. But, time-allowing, perhaps you will. Perhaps you'll have seen what you need to see to know the answer I have come to at duty's end.