[There's something to be said for the black and white reasoning of a child. The way they strip everything else away, down to good versus bad, darkness versus light. It would be comforting, in a way, to let herself slip into thinking they are 100% right. She's blameless. He was the aggressor.
She's still the one that pulled the trigger.]
He made his choice. And I made mine. And it resulted in his death. I could have walked away. I probably should have.
[She shakes her head.]
You're right. There's nothing wrong with curiosity. I should have been more careful, all the same. I was a symbol of something back home. I should have known that people would want to use that for their own ends, even then.
[She knows that now, of course. She knows this idea intimately, as intimately as she knows that half the bones in her body aren't her, as intimately as she knows those metal scars that glowed through her cheeks the first couple of weeks when she was revived were a constant reminder that she was no longer truly human.]
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She's still the one that pulled the trigger.]
He made his choice. And I made mine. And it resulted in his death. I could have walked away. I probably should have.
[She shakes her head.]
You're right. There's nothing wrong with curiosity. I should have been more careful, all the same. I was a symbol of something back home. I should have known that people would want to use that for their own ends, even then.
[She knows that now, of course. She knows this idea intimately, as intimately as she knows that half the bones in her body aren't her, as intimately as she knows those metal scars that glowed through her cheeks the first couple of weeks when she was revived were a constant reminder that she was no longer truly human.]