The words sting him more than he expected, because he knows what choice she made. A choice that he kept trying to make her change and yet for some ungodly reason she remains stuck to it.
As well as the choice he made and the choice he also stuck to.
Then again, he's just as stubborn so this really isn't so surprising when it's a clash of their wills, neither willing to bend even when they should.
Yet again he has to bite down the words he's always wanted to say, the hurt that he's also had to carry and bury.]
It doesn't have to be this way.
[He takes a step towards her, his voice softening.]
Benedikta, this can't be what you really want, can it? [Unbidden, his voice from when he asked that same question as she lay lifeless on that charred ground echo through his mind and he has to hastily push it away.] To live in fear like this? Just look at yourself!
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And so did you.
The words sting him more than he expected, because he knows what choice she made. A choice that he kept trying to make her change and yet for some ungodly reason she remains stuck to it.
As well as the choice he made and the choice he also stuck to.
Then again, he's just as stubborn so this really isn't so surprising when it's a clash of their wills, neither willing to bend even when they should.
Yet again he has to bite down the words he's always wanted to say, the hurt that he's also had to carry and bury.]
It doesn't have to be this way.
[He takes a step towards her, his voice softening.]
Benedikta, this can't be what you really want, can it? [Unbidden, his voice from when he asked that same question as she lay lifeless on that charred ground echo through his mind and he has to hastily push it away.] To live in fear like this? Just look at yourself!