[ Did it - did she slip...? She's thought of her tower a lot, so it's not unbelievable. ]
I was safe there.
[ Safe, but not living. Safe, but not feeling. Safe, but still wanting.
It was security. Songbird served more than an icon to Columbia, but as Elizabeth's protector. It fought endlessly to keep her safe, to keep her in her tower. Even with it destroyed - she can go back to it, right? She can find a tear and -
No, she stops thinking of that.
He speaks to her and makes her chew on her words, giving a half-hearted shrug. He makes sense, she think, but she can't bring herself to accept it. There's always a "but - " ]
No, it's not that. It's... people aren't what I thought they would be. When it's reading books, it's easy to see the villain from the hero. The charming rogue who saves the day and learns a lesson or the seductress in waiting - context clues. Reading line after line to come to the conclusion it was there the entire time...
... I don't think I'm very good at reading people as much as I am reading books.
[ She's trusted some very bad people. ]
There's another girl here, Booker. She - ... she has powers like my own. Yuno knows how it feels and she's trying so hard to save them. I need to do what I can to save us too. Everyone in this damn project... take them back from which they've came. I think I'm the only one who can do that.
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I was safe there.
[ Safe, but not living. Safe, but not feeling. Safe, but still wanting.
It was security. Songbird served more than an icon to Columbia, but as Elizabeth's protector. It fought endlessly to keep her safe, to keep her in her tower. Even with it destroyed - she can go back to it, right? She can find a tear and -
No, she stops thinking of that.
He speaks to her and makes her chew on her words, giving a half-hearted shrug. He makes sense, she think, but she can't bring herself to accept it. There's always a "but - " ]
No, it's not that. It's... people aren't what I thought they would be. When it's reading books, it's easy to see the villain from the hero. The charming rogue who saves the day and learns a lesson or the seductress in waiting - context clues. Reading line after line to come to the conclusion it was there the entire time...
... I don't think I'm very good at reading people as much as I am reading books.
[ She's trusted some very bad people. ]
There's another girl here, Booker. She - ... she has powers like my own. Yuno knows how it feels and she's trying so hard to save them. I need to do what I can to save us too. Everyone in this damn project... take them back from which they've came. I think I'm the only one who can do that.
And I'm scared.