"That's okay." She leans over further, head tilting in an almost feline fashion so she can peer at him, and offer a reassuring smile.
"It takes time to learn these things, and you haven't been free for a year yet. And I know you didn't have even the little kindnesses that were granted to the Widows."
Because they at least needed to be able to fake a connection for the sake of so many of their missions, and he...didn't. What use modeling things like love and friendship for someone you wanted to strip of their humanity entirely?
"Besides, loving someone is not a transaction. If you don't feel the same, or if you don't put that name to it, then that's fine. You are important to me, not some...idealized person I want you to be."
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"It takes time to learn these things, and you haven't been free for a year yet. And I know you didn't have even the little kindnesses that were granted to the Widows."
Because they at least needed to be able to fake a connection for the sake of so many of their missions, and he...didn't. What use modeling things like love and friendship for someone you wanted to strip of their humanity entirely?
"Besides, loving someone is not a transaction. If you don't feel the same, or if you don't put that name to it, then that's fine. You are important to me, not some...idealized person I want you to be."