Then you are my future, my daughter. That such peace will come out of so much blood, is more than I ever could have wished for.
[ She wants to see it, but she can't, not in her mind. A product of a time and place that has never relieved her of her burden. Duty had no physical weight except the unforgiving pressure. But it did not mean she did not take refuge in possibilities. Would she do any of this, if she did not dream, at least, when she could convince herself to?
She doesn't want that composure, she wants to see that hope she let turn to ash in her mouth so many times, just for a second, in the only way she could accept it.
Damn this glass, damn this cell, damn the Cetagandans twice over. For not letting her embrace her as she should, for using that hope of a better world she had given away all else too, destroy any chance for another people. Her gut twists, her jaw clenches and she places her palm flat to the glass. ]
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[ She wants to see it, but she can't, not in her mind. A product of a time and place that has never relieved her of her burden. Duty had no physical weight except the unforgiving pressure. But it did not mean she did not take refuge in possibilities. Would she do any of this, if she did not dream, at least, when she could convince herself to?
She doesn't want that composure, she wants to see that hope she let turn to ash in her mouth so many times, just for a second, in the only way she could accept it.
Damn this glass, damn this cell, damn the Cetagandans twice over. For not letting her embrace her as she should, for using that hope of a better world she had given away all else too, destroy any chance for another people. Her gut twists, her jaw clenches and she places her palm flat to the glass. ]
What is your name?