< Bingo >, Atreides. [Once upon a time, Shannon was the "real" Sayo; Beatrice and Kanon existed so that Sayo could comfortably live in dreamlike bliss as her "real" self, without dark urges and darker thoughts tormenting her. But the stain of bloody truth decayed even that facade, leaving a woman so hollow that no happiness could reach her (or that she couldn't reach happiness?) no matter how hard she tried, puppeteering her own life from backstage.] Although...

[Something harrowing and genuine passes across Sayo's face, and she turns to Kaworu, expression flat and weary.] Memories are liars to a fault, Kaworu.

The most important day in your life, the most impactful thing anyone has ever said to you... it could be an easily-forgotten joke to him, just one more breezy summer day of his youth and you a side character in his story.

Don't repeat my mistakes.