She's aware that knife of friendship is being pointed at her for answers, but what is there to hide about a death that's already happened? It doesn't even matter now, but there are things she still wants to keep all to herself - the things she kept from G'raha and Sabo and all the others. Herta's blue eyes like a frozen lake. Her laugh and smile. The way she would bring her gifted pieces of cake to her mother to share even though she was also going hungry. How much smarter than Andrew she is.]
The Sanrit people are afforded no rights in my country, and many are forced to serve powerful families. There's a nearby country that accepts their refugees, but it's dangerous to get there. Her father serves mine as his doctor, and her mother is in a workhouse where Father could have her killed any day. Herta is safe with me at school, for now, now that that repulsive Headmistress is out of the picture.
If any of them ran individually, Father would hunt them to the ends of the earth and punish them all. They have to go together under a suitable distraction. If Father is distracted -- for example, by a humiliating disaster on my wedding day...
[Then Siffrin should be able to fill in those blanks.]
I doubt I've ever really been living. [She did take to her death here in the garden quite quickly, he'll recall.] I might have wanted to, to see her one more time, but...
BIGGUM canon spoilers + cw suicide mention/enslavement
She's aware that knife of friendship is being pointed at her for answers, but what is there to hide about a death that's already happened? It doesn't even matter now, but there are things she still wants to keep all to herself - the things she kept from G'raha and Sabo and all the others. Herta's blue eyes like a frozen lake. Her laugh and smile. The way she would bring her gifted pieces of cake to her mother to share even though she was also going hungry. How much smarter than Andrew she is.]
The Sanrit people are afforded no rights in my country, and many are forced to serve powerful families. There's a nearby country that accepts their refugees, but it's dangerous to get there. Her father serves mine as his doctor, and her mother is in a workhouse where Father could have her killed any day. Herta is safe with me at school, for now, now that that repulsive Headmistress is out of the picture.
If any of them ran individually, Father would hunt them to the ends of the earth and punish them all. They have to go together under a suitable distraction. If Father is distracted -- for example, by a humiliating disaster on my wedding day...
[Then Siffrin should be able to fill in those blanks.]
I doubt I've ever really been living. [She did take to her death here in the garden quite quickly, he'll recall.] I might have wanted to, to see her one more time, but...