[ She doesn't quite smile – even Ai can't manage that right now – but her expression warms just a touch, a peek of sunshine on a damp and dismal day. ]
... I get that it's different for you guys. I mean, where you come from – you fight in wars. You have to... protect yourselves and the people around you. If something like that'd happened where you were from, it's pretty natural you'd have to pay it back.
[ Her gaze drifts, over to the door, where the chattering voices of their fellow survivors drift in. So few of them, now. ]
I guess after this place... I'm just sick of paying it back.
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... I get that it's different for you guys. I mean, where you come from – you fight in wars. You have to... protect yourselves and the people around you. If something like that'd happened where you were from, it's pretty natural you'd have to pay it back.
[ Her gaze drifts, over to the door, where the chattering voices of their fellow survivors drift in. So few of them, now. ]
I guess after this place... I'm just sick of paying it back.