"But here you are." She thumps his chest with his own shirt to punctuate each word. "This isn't the Star Stream. Rules are different here. If they weren't you -- wouldn't be here."
She has to force out those last words, connected as they are to the memory of their final moments on the train, their return to the 1864th, and the seeming end that followed.
"I --" Be honest, Suyeong. Don't hide things, no matter how embarrassing. Tell them straight and tell them true. It's the only way. "I wished to get you back, you know. If this place... if this place plays by its own rules, if it sets a contract it has to obey, it has to grant that wish. Somehow."
Small though she might be, something seems to hover over her as she glares up at him. Some things, making themselves known.
[Story, "Revision Specialist" is choosing its pen.] [Story, "Guide of the Line Spacing" is donning lensless glasses.]
"I'll make it. I'll force it if I have to. I'll do it without you if I have to, but I don't want to."
[Story, "Ultimate Lie" is ready to write the False Last Act.]
"You are coming back with us, Kim Dokja."
The Oldest Dream he might be, but this reality is not his, not theirs. She'll put her strength against his if she has to. In this moment, how could any will, any force, any reality compete with her own determination to keep him?
"So stop telling me why you can't and start making it so you can!"
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She has to force out those last words, connected as they are to the memory of their final moments on the train, their return to the 1864th, and the seeming end that followed.
"I --" Be honest, Suyeong. Don't hide things, no matter how embarrassing. Tell them straight and tell them true. It's the only way. "I wished to get you back, you know. If this place... if this place plays by its own rules, if it sets a contract it has to obey, it has to grant that wish. Somehow."
Small though she might be, something seems to hover over her as she glares up at him. Some things, making themselves known.
[Story, "Revision Specialist" is choosing its pen.]
[Story, "Guide of the Line Spacing" is donning lensless glasses.]
"I'll make it. I'll force it if I have to. I'll do it without you if I have to, but I don't want to."
[Story, "Ultimate Lie" is ready to write the False Last Act.]
"You are coming back with us, Kim Dokja."
The Oldest Dream he might be, but this reality is not his, not theirs. She'll put her strength against his if she has to. In this moment, how could any will, any force, any reality compete with her own determination to keep him?
"So stop telling me why you can't and start making it so you can!"