[maybe it's predictable, but. she likes to hear it anyway. shenhe has her own opinions and thoughts on things but - other people have experienced so much more than her. so... it's better that she hears everything. ]
No... we didn't. But we are. [part of the game. and they do have to play it, and pretending like they don't or that somehow it'll change or that something will happen to make things better doesn't make sense to her. she frowns.]
Does it matter why it happened? It will happen again.
[ It doesn't make sense to her, but Vash really is constantly thinking of possible ways out of this... Nothing has come up, which is frustrating. It doesn't mean the possibility won't plague him until he dies (again). ]
It does to me.
[ Sometimes compassion is nonsensical, obstinate, childish, and selfish. ]
... I think there's some comfort in knowing the truth, even if it's hard to feel that right now.
[ Vash knows he would be pained all the same, but he can think of it as justice for those who deserved it, even if their situation is more to blame. Maybe it does help. He just doesn't know right now. ]
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No... we didn't. But we are. [part of the game. and they do have to play it, and pretending like they don't or that somehow it'll change or that something will happen to make things better doesn't make sense to her. she frowns.]
Does it matter why it happened? It will happen again.
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It does to me.
[ Sometimes compassion is nonsensical, obstinate, childish, and selfish. ]
... I think there's some comfort in knowing the truth, even if it's hard to feel that right now.
[ Vash knows he would be pained all the same, but he can think of it as justice for those who deserved it, even if their situation is more to blame. Maybe it does help. He just doesn't know right now. ]
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[she can agree with that much, she guesses.]
But the truth, I think, will just often be because they thought they had to.
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she very quietly will just pat him.]