She should have stopped, [ don says with the certainty of someone speaking towards a story not her own, ] and-- had she no one at her side? No one that would help to figure something else out? I wish for her freedom, for her happiness, for her to be to do as she'd like as any other living thing -- but at a cost so great? That, I cannot condone. But she is a victim, one who was given only a wrong choice from the very start.
[ but surely, surely, she had the chance to... find some other way. there's too much about the story left out, don feels, but she doesn't know the questions to ask. ]
... I should like to grant her a better end, but I do not know how. I do not think her a villain, for the root of the problem is far deeper than that. Is it not?
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She should have stopped, [ don says with the certainty of someone speaking towards a story not her own, ] and-- had she no one at her side? No one that would help to figure something else out? I wish for her freedom, for her happiness, for her to be to do as she'd like as any other living thing -- but at a cost so great? That, I cannot condone. But she is a victim, one who was given only a wrong choice from the very start.
[ but surely, surely, she had the chance to... find some other way. there's too much about the story left out, don feels, but she doesn't know the questions to ask. ]
... I should like to grant her a better end, but I do not know how. I do not think her a villain, for the root of the problem is far deeper than that. Is it not?