[She laces her hands behind Romana's back, tugging her close before she rocks her in a slow, comforting rhythm]
Back home it makes sense, doesn't it? Anything to keep our people safe. Nothing else matters. Everyone has mothers and children, but our own are different. They matter more.
But here... They made us play God, to decide and judge. Those I spared I did out of compassion, or maybe cowardice. But to strip of us what makes us nations and ideas... To make us mortal... It is scary.
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Date: 2011-06-15 04:06 am (UTC)Back home it makes sense, doesn't it? Anything to keep our people safe. Nothing else matters. Everyone has mothers and children, but our own are different. They matter more.
But here... They made us play God, to decide and judge. Those I spared I did out of compassion, or maybe cowardice. But to strip of us what makes us nations and ideas... To make us mortal... It is scary.