Zivia's calm too: calm in the way a hostage negotiator is calm, too aware of reality to let her own reactions get in the way of what she needs to do.
"Maybe you did deserve to be killed, at the time," she says, just as steadily as though the very idea doesn't revolt her. "I can't speak to that. Though I certainly didn't see any due process of law determining it, but regardless. That doesn't mean you deserved to be made to relive it, or to have it splashed in front of everybody on stage. And it certainly doesn't mean anybody should hold you in contempt for being hurt."
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"Maybe you did deserve to be killed, at the time," she says, just as steadily as though the very idea doesn't revolt her. "I can't speak to that. Though I certainly didn't see any due process of law determining it, but regardless. That doesn't mean you deserved to be made to relive it, or to have it splashed in front of everybody on stage. And it certainly doesn't mean anybody should hold you in contempt for being hurt."