A slow pause. "I saw the end of a thousand years of war. And the effects it had, on those who fought it. On those who kept fighting it. It lives on behind your eyes, and alone you suffer it, so others need not."
The smile she gives is both gentle and telling, of what she herself has seen. "The trouble is of course, you are not alone. Not really. Its immortality is a false mien, pulled tight 'cross your throat. I offer only what I know I can give."
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A slow pause. "I saw the end of a thousand years of war. And the effects it had, on those who fought it. On those who kept fighting it. It lives on behind your eyes, and alone you suffer it, so others need not."
The smile she gives is both gentle and telling, of what she herself has seen. "The trouble is of course, you are not alone. Not really. Its immortality is a false mien, pulled tight 'cross your throat. I offer only what I know I can give."