What we did to the world was-- we damned it by putting the relics into it, even if we meant to save it from something worse. Thousands of people were killed. I couldn't sit by and watch our world keep killing itself over the relics we made, and I couldn't... I couldn't bear what it was doing to us. I knew they wouldn't have agreed to put a stop to it with me because the plan was, theoretically, working, but it was... we lost Lup. She made us promise once that we would never do something like that just because the alternative was worse, and then we lost her to it.
And I'm not going to claim it was good. I know that this is-- it's something I'm going to have to atone for.
[she still remembers, very clearly, weapons pointed at her. you fucking took everything from me.]
But I could take that weight and let them just... be happy, for a while, until the world was safe again, and then they'd remember. I could put a stop to every war over the relics, all at once, and try to make sure no one else died for our mistakes. I'm-- so close to fixing it, Caleb.
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she just takes a breath in, slow.]
...it felt like it was the only choice to make.
What we did to the world was-- we damned it by putting the relics into it, even if we meant to save it from something worse. Thousands of people were killed. I couldn't sit by and watch our world keep killing itself over the relics we made, and I couldn't... I couldn't bear what it was doing to us. I knew they wouldn't have agreed to put a stop to it with me because the plan was, theoretically, working, but it was... we lost Lup. She made us promise once that we would never do something like that just because the alternative was worse, and then we lost her to it.
And I'm not going to claim it was good. I know that this is-- it's something I'm going to have to atone for.
[she still remembers, very clearly, weapons pointed at her. you fucking took everything from me.]
But I could take that weight and let them just... be happy, for a while, until the world was safe again, and then they'd remember. I could put a stop to every war over the relics, all at once, and try to make sure no one else died for our mistakes. I'm-- so close to fixing it, Caleb.