hearing this doesn't make it any easier. maybe it should. if he's already dead, then a week here is a week more than he would have had, isn't it? but a life is still a life. he chose to die once, but he could have lived here, if he hadn't...
if things hadn't turned out this way.
yona brings a hand up to wipe at her eyes and takes a breath. when she speaks, her voice comes out mostly steady.]
Is that... is that all that you wanted to say?
[she can't say that she won't feel bad about this, because she will. but if it brings him peace, then she at least won't argue with him, either. the best she can do now is give him the chance to say anything else he wants to say.
and if there's nothing, then... to make it as quick as possible.
her other hand comes to rest on the guillotine's lever, waiting.]
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hearing this doesn't make it any easier. maybe it should. if he's already dead, then a week here is a week more than he would have had, isn't it? but a life is still a life. he chose to die once, but he could have lived here, if he hadn't...
if things hadn't turned out this way.
yona brings a hand up to wipe at her eyes and takes a breath. when she speaks, her voice comes out mostly steady.]
Is that... is that all that you wanted to say?
[she can't say that she won't feel bad about this, because she will. but if it brings him peace, then she at least won't argue with him, either. the best she can do now is give him the chance to say anything else he wants to say.
and if there's nothing, then... to make it as quick as possible.
her other hand comes to rest on the guillotine's lever, waiting.]