[At least they can agree on one thing - that Sariel deserved none of this. The rest is going to spark their continued disagreement, with Andrew's impotent anger, trapped and unable to act in this other-garden, still stoked by how meaningless it all seems. His calmness usually reassures her, and eventually, it will quell, but it doesn't make a lick of sense right now.]

And why should it have been you? Did it never occur to you that the people left behind couldn't stomach what you saw as good for "their sake?"

[She is so, so close to realizing that someone might, at least one day, feel the same way about what she had once planned to do. That would require someone to care for her. The act itself bothered her enough; it was the crux of her argument with Siffrin. Four weeks ago, she'd wondered about the sins committed in the name of love that ended up hurting the loved one; now she's seeing it in stark illumination. This added complacency, the sudden acceptance of injustice...it's what makes her demand another answer, even when there isn't one to be had.]