[What is she supposed to say? That she missed him? Was that not pathetically obvious, now that he has found her standing here in the one place beyond his home where he could be reliably found? Why must she use words to say it?]
You fought to end a war, to- to make peace, and give people better lives-
[... Things that are noble. Things that were good. And she-]
I turned away from the Armless as if I were above them. I captured jinba that escaped, I hunted down anyone my stable master required-
[She had turned away from the sufferings of the Armless and held her head high as if she were better than them, more worthy of not being treated like horses, cannon fodder, and breeding stock. She had captured escaped jinba, she had consigned them to the fates she feared more than anything just to try and make sure she would never fall that far, and he...]
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[What is she supposed to say? That she missed him? Was that not pathetically obvious, now that he has found her standing here in the one place beyond his home where he could be reliably found? Why must she use words to say it?]
You fought to end a war, to- to make peace, and give people better lives-
[... Things that are noble. Things that were good. And she-]
I turned away from the Armless as if I were above them. I captured jinba that escaped, I hunted down anyone my stable master required-
[She had turned away from the sufferings of the Armless and held her head high as if she were better than them, more worthy of not being treated like horses, cannon fodder, and breeding stock. She had captured escaped jinba, she had consigned them to the fates she feared more than anything just to try and make sure she would never fall that far, and he...]