[ Would have been nice if she'd been back in her machine body where she hadn't needed to sleep at all, but it is what it is and she just has to put up with it. It's not like she doesn't know what it feels like to die, and technically, her own death had been far less merciful than Don Quixote's, but it's a difficult thing to feel grateful for when one considers the circumstances. ]
And yeah, I'd consider it a punishment. Maybe they're assuming witnesses meant no one tried to stop it from occurring and they're considering it being complicit instead.
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[ Would have been nice if she'd been back in her machine body where she hadn't needed to sleep at all, but it is what it is and she just has to put up with it. It's not like she doesn't know what it feels like to die, and technically, her own death had been far less merciful than Don Quixote's, but it's a difficult thing to feel grateful for when one considers the circumstances. ]
And yeah, I'd consider it a punishment. Maybe they're assuming witnesses meant no one tried to stop it from occurring and they're considering it being complicit instead.