[There's a crack, even if it doesn't look like anything around them has damaged. She shudders and looks away.]
I wanted to protect that place and its people, and my fellow captives as well. I cared for them. I even found people who made me happy.
[Something catches in her throat.]
But I can't -- I can't! I can't just leave my home alone and get attached to some utopia! Especially since the entire system it runs on makes me uncomfortable at best for reasons that were never fair to any of you. And I need to be here. What if something happens in the next 24 years? Or what if all the differences between this world and the other version are enough that it will be me they need?
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[There's a crack, even if it doesn't look like anything around them has damaged. She shudders and looks away.]
I wanted to protect that place and its people, and my fellow captives as well. I cared for them. I even found people who made me happy.
[Something catches in her throat.]
But I can't -- I can't! I can't just leave my home alone and get attached to some utopia! Especially since the entire system it runs on makes me uncomfortable at best for reasons that were never fair to any of you. And I need to be here. What if something happens in the next 24 years? Or what if all the differences between this world and the other version are enough that it will be me they need?