[ Beatrice doesn't bother hiding the disbelief in her voice. She listens, though, as Break speaks. If only because she trusts him both to have Ange's interests in his heart and because she believes that he will tell her only the unvarnished truth of what he thinks. After all, she's not foolish enough to think he likes her for her own sake. ]
Yes, I understand that much. As much as Rokkenjima was a prison, and a miserable one, it was also a place where there some happy memories. Safety. Warmth. So it makes sense that she might make it into a refuse. She only has pleasant memories before the tragedy after all, and she was a child. She didn't see the rotten truth of it because the adults in her life hid it from her.
[ An exhalation of pipe smoke wafts upwards. ]
The urge to protect those precious to her... I understand that, too. I wanted to take the ones I loved to the Golden Land, even when I killed them again and again. I wanted Battler so badly to solve the riddle and know the truth.
I don't know what it will take to shake her out of this but she can't go on like this. Her powers here are not so great that she can sustain this indefinitely. Not even mine are.
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[ Beatrice doesn't bother hiding the disbelief in her voice. She listens, though, as Break speaks. If only because she trusts him both to have Ange's interests in his heart and because she believes that he will tell her only the unvarnished truth of what he thinks. After all, she's not foolish enough to think he likes her for her own sake. ]
Yes, I understand that much. As much as Rokkenjima was a prison, and a miserable one, it was also a place where there some happy memories. Safety. Warmth. So it makes sense that she might make it into a refuse. She only has pleasant memories before the tragedy after all, and she was a child. She didn't see the rotten truth of it because the adults in her life hid it from her.
[ An exhalation of pipe smoke wafts upwards. ]
The urge to protect those precious to her... I understand that, too. I wanted to take the ones I loved to the Golden Land, even when I killed them again and again. I wanted Battler so badly to solve the riddle and know the truth.
I don't know what it will take to shake her out of this but she can't go on like this. Her powers here are not so great that she can sustain this indefinitely. Not even mine are.