... I... I didn't want to believe it. Even though I've seen two of them myself... I didn't want to know...
[She's seen two of those horrible executions, and prayed to never see another for the rest of her life. And yet she'd seen his trap, and she knew what it meant, and she tried to bury that meaning...]
... On the island, we had two murders. It was wrong... They were wrong. But they did it for someone they loved... He just wanted to see his sick mother... She did it so the one she loved could escape... We were all pushed to such awful extremes...
You... I want to believe, if it wasn't for those extremes... if it wasn't for that bear and his awful game... that you'd never do such a thing!
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[She turns her head away, eyes shut.]
... I... I didn't want to believe it. Even though I've seen two of them myself... I didn't want to know...
[She's seen two of those horrible executions, and prayed to never see another for the rest of her life. And yet she'd seen his trap, and she knew what it meant, and she tried to bury that meaning...]
... On the island, we had two murders. It was wrong... They were wrong. But they did it for someone they loved... He just wanted to see his sick mother... She did it so the one she loved could escape... We were all pushed to such awful extremes...
You... I want to believe, if it wasn't for those extremes... if it wasn't for that bear and his awful game... that you'd never do such a thing!