[The expression is brief, well-contained. Camille catches it anyway.
It breaks her heart a little. So many of these people are so damnably young. Even if they've been living fantastic and dangerous lives before, that's no excuse to compound their miseries. They shouldn't be in those situations at all.
But then, who wants to be mollycoddled by this week's guillotine escapee?]
There's no real peaceful way to go, frankly. Even dying of old age is a drag, slow shut down of pieces of you with no real say of what goes and when.
Still...I'm very sorry, Vin. That you had to confront her. And Nona, too.
[More besides, in the future. One week after another.]
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[The expression is brief, well-contained. Camille catches it anyway.
It breaks her heart a little. So many of these people are so damnably young. Even if they've been living fantastic and dangerous lives before, that's no excuse to compound their miseries. They shouldn't be in those situations at all.
But then, who wants to be mollycoddled by this week's guillotine escapee?]
There's no real peaceful way to go, frankly. Even dying of old age is a drag, slow shut down of pieces of you with no real say of what goes and when.
Still...I'm very sorry, Vin. That you had to confront her. And Nona, too.
[More besides, in the future. One week after another.]