Yes. In contrast, being sacrificed to resurrect a god might be quite easy. You don't really have to do much of anything other than stand around and wait to die.
[but she's not so sure of that. quite a few of you seem fine with the idea of dying.]
You seemed awfully ready to throw her to the wolves. [maybe that's cruel to say, but she's blunt as ever, meaning no malice to it. it just was something she noticed, and found odd - their disagreements, how fast he was to insist there was no other way forward except to sacrifice ash.]
Robin... made it a little easier, but before that, I was worried that we would... have a more uncomfortable discussion about what to do, because of Ashlyn's partner.
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But we've been... trying not to.
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And then speaking of plans, there's... there's Ashlyn.
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[but she's not so sure of that. quite a few of you seem fine with the idea of dying.]
You seemed awfully ready to throw her to the wolves. [maybe that's cruel to say, but she's blunt as ever, meaning no malice to it. it just was something she noticed, and found odd - their disagreements, how fast he was to insist there was no other way forward except to sacrifice ash.]
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[he starts to finish that sentence, stops, shakes his head a little, emotions turbulent. a little guilt, a little frustration.]
I can't... I can't explain why, beyond saying that Asa was wrong. But I don't want Ashlyn to die. I just didn't want...
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[hmmm.]
So you wanted to be firm because you were afraid we would hesitate to sacrifice her partner, and you thought it might need to be done anyway.
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[a hesitant nod.]
But I would never do that without having a good reason for my feelings, even if... I can't say what it is.
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[she does; it's clear something else was going on there.]