[She shakes her head, accepting the child's blunt question for what it was. Children, she knew, were like that sometimes. ...She had been quite like that.]
Somebody else killed them. We were all very distraught.
Charlie...
[And here she comes to a difficult point, something that should not need to be explained to a child, simply because the very premise of that situation meant that something truly horrible was happening. Lysithea looks... Peter/Paimon/Charlie directly in the eyes.]
Do you think that's what love means?
You do things for people and then they'll love you? Isn't that just... service?
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[She shakes her head, accepting the child's blunt question for what it was. Children, she knew, were like that sometimes. ...She had been quite like that.]
Somebody else killed them. We were all very distraught.
Charlie...
[And here she comes to a difficult point, something that should not need to be explained to a child, simply because the very premise of that situation meant that something truly horrible was happening. Lysithea looks... Peter/Paimon/Charlie directly in the eyes.]
Do you think that's what love means?
You do things for people and then they'll love you? Isn't that just... service?