"A war," she says softly. "It ended just before I arrived here."
She ended it. She and Raleigh and Hermann and Newt and Chuck and Pentecost, at a cost she was prepared to devote an unhealthy amount of mental energy convincing herself it was worth it, except that she never got that chance.
She had not wanted to lose Raleigh too, she had told him. She had not wanted to lose anyone.
She sobers slightly, figuratively, and removes herself further from the literal concept as her second drink arrives and she sips it.
"It will not happen here," she says, though it sounds more an assurance to herself than to him. "It would have happened already."
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"A war," she says softly. "It ended just before I arrived here."
She ended it. She and Raleigh and Hermann and Newt and Chuck and Pentecost, at a cost she was prepared to devote an unhealthy amount of mental energy convincing herself it was worth it, except that she never got that chance.
She had not wanted to lose Raleigh too, she had told him. She had not wanted to lose anyone.
She sobers slightly, figuratively, and removes herself further from the literal concept as her second drink arrives and she sips it.
"It will not happen here," she says, though it sounds more an assurance to herself than to him. "It would have happened already."