[ Ages ago? He barks out a laugh, sharp and bitter. ]
It hasn't been that long.
[ A few months, even considering their time on the ship - and even with Elizabeth's unflagging efforts to drag him out of his room and show him around, they haven't been spending nearly the same amount of time together here as they had during their short time in Columbia. Is that what she's basing this on? Those few short days?
She's right, of course. He'd never hand her over to anyone now; he'd fight to keep her out of the grasp of those who might hurt her. He had done just that.
Fought...and failed. There are things she doesn't know, because they had never happened to her. He looks down, staring at nothing. ]
None of that changes anything.
[ It hadn't erased what he'd done, all the lives that he'd took. Nothing can erase that. ]
You should be running away from me as fast as you can go.
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It hasn't been that long.
[ A few months, even considering their time on the ship - and even with Elizabeth's unflagging efforts to drag him out of his room and show him around, they haven't been spending nearly the same amount of time together here as they had during their short time in Columbia. Is that what she's basing this on? Those few short days?
She's right, of course. He'd never hand her over to anyone now; he'd fight to keep her out of the grasp of those who might hurt her. He had done just that.
Fought...and failed. There are things she doesn't know, because they had never happened to her. He looks down, staring at nothing. ]
None of that changes anything.
[ It hadn't erased what he'd done, all the lives that he'd took. Nothing can erase that. ]
You should be running away from me as fast as you can go.