For a long time, she doesn't say anything. When she finally opens her mouth again... She talked to Ignis before, and he'd seemed nice enough. But she wouldn't normally say this much, this soon. But this had started hitting way too close to home, way too fast.]
When I was... [She hesitates, her voice faltering a little as she tries to work the mental math.] eight... nine...? months old... I was asked to make a choice.
When I was made, something... had been taken from someone else, someone important, to make me. But... without that, this person was... sick, in a way. He couldn't wake up. And unless I gave that part back... there was nothing anyone could do. But without that part... there'd be nothing of me left. I was hurting him, just by existing.
[Her voice warbles slightly. Her breathing shakes.]
From what I've learned... I'm supposed to say yes, when I do finally go home. That I'll go back.
I'm three now.
[The last point seems... almost stupid to add. But it seemed to link, to what Ignis had said.]
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For a long time, she doesn't say anything. When she finally opens her mouth again... She talked to Ignis before, and he'd seemed nice enough. But she wouldn't normally say this much, this soon. But this had started hitting way too close to home, way too fast.]
When I was... [She hesitates, her voice faltering a little as she tries to work the mental math.] eight... nine...? months old... I was asked to make a choice.
When I was made, something... had been taken from someone else, someone important, to make me. But... without that, this person was... sick, in a way. He couldn't wake up. And unless I gave that part back... there was nothing anyone could do. But without that part... there'd be nothing of me left. I was hurting him, just by existing.
[Her voice warbles slightly. Her breathing shakes.]
From what I've learned... I'm supposed to say yes, when I do finally go home. That I'll go back.
I'm three now.
[The last point seems... almost stupid to add. But it seemed to link, to what Ignis had said.]