[Even a workaholic like him can't always be at it. She smiles back, though it's faint, uncertain. Polite, perhaps, but cautious— she's always been cautious around him and his men. How could she be otherwise, knowing how things were inevitably going to go?
She glances back to the mirror, hesitating a moment before shaking her head.]
I don't know about cruel.
[Life in that room had been cruel. Much of what had followed had been cruel in a different way, even as she tried to find the silver lining in every cloud, tried to live what she was certain would be a short life to the fullest, exercising what little freedom she had.]
Maybe it's doing us a favor by offering reminders of where we come from so that we can make the most of the lives we have now.
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[Even a workaholic like him can't always be at it. She smiles back, though it's faint, uncertain. Polite, perhaps, but cautious— she's always been cautious around him and his men. How could she be otherwise, knowing how things were inevitably going to go?
She glances back to the mirror, hesitating a moment before shaking her head.]
I don't know about cruel.
[Life in that room had been cruel. Much of what had followed had been cruel in a different way, even as she tried to find the silver lining in every cloud, tried to live what she was certain would be a short life to the fullest, exercising what little freedom she had.]
Maybe it's doing us a favor by offering reminders of where we come from so that we can make the most of the lives we have now.