I could shoot you, too. You're not even pretending to be like her; it'd be easy.
[She's not lying. She could do it. Physically and emotionally, she's capable of pulling the trigger on this offensively obvious trick, no matter how real it looks.
But she'd held off on killing thousands of fake Roots, in thousands of scenarios that she was sure were simulations. She can't break that streak now - because doing so would also break something small but irreparable in her.]
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[She's not lying. She could do it. Physically and emotionally, she's capable of pulling the trigger on this offensively obvious trick, no matter how real it looks.
But she'd held off on killing thousands of fake Roots, in thousands of scenarios that she was sure were simulations. She can't break that streak now - because doing so would also break something small but irreparable in her.]