[Just because she had devoted her life to becoming a warrior, and to do that had necessitated a certain amount of honor and loyalty... Battles were not always won by bushi. There were strategists, and foot soldiers, and ninja, as well... Liem was now doing work more of the latter. It is not the work she has trouble with.]
... Are they not?
[Maybe she's wrong. But she had always just thought... Liem was a better person than her. That he might care more than she did... about "innocents" and doing things that were wrong. Or maybe that was because she only thought of him as better and did not know what that actually meant.]
I merely intend... you to know. That I think that.
That you are the sort of who could do well shining in the light, not just moving in the dark.
[... METAPHORICALLY. The person she made read her things about dhampir in the library explained the whole. Sun thing.]
no subject
... Are they not?
[Maybe she's wrong. But she had always just thought... Liem was a better person than her. That he might care more than she did... about "innocents" and doing things that were wrong. Or maybe that was because she only thought of him as better and did not know what that actually meant.]
I merely intend... you to know. That I think that.
That you are the sort of who could do well shining in the light, not just moving in the dark.
[... METAPHORICALLY. The person she made read her things about dhampir in the library explained the whole. Sun thing.]