[When Mari hugged her, Frieda wanted to yell at her more, because surely the only reason for her to do that could be denial - but when she spoke, it was clear that she did understand the weight of her sins, if not the full scale of her people's history (and who but the holder of the Founding Titan could truly understand it?), and chose to still embrace her regardless.]
Mari...
[She couldn't bring herself to hug her back. In this moment, she felt like a twisted version of Mari - outwardly, a kind and caring older sister like her, but in reality something much more sinister, barely even human anymore until the end of her life, a vessel for a horrible power and an ancestral will much stronger than her. Her voice sounded choked up when she finally responded.]
You... you're right. No one person should have to decide over so many lives.
[She really meant that. It simply wasn't right. And yet, she still felt conflicted, even now that King Karl wasn't steering her mind anymore. After all, her people would doubtlessly have refused to sacrifice themselves, had they not been kept in ignorance, and their resistance would have bred more war, more deaths, more suffering.
Even so, did they deserves this end? She simply couldn't bring herself to agree with it.]
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Mari...
[She couldn't bring herself to hug her back. In this moment, she felt like a twisted version of Mari - outwardly, a kind and caring older sister like her, but in reality something much more sinister, barely even human anymore until the end of her life, a vessel for a horrible power and an ancestral will much stronger than her. Her voice sounded choked up when she finally responded.]
You... you're right. No one person should have to decide over so many lives.
[She really meant that. It simply wasn't right. And yet, she still felt conflicted, even now that King Karl wasn't steering her mind anymore. After all, her people would doubtlessly have refused to sacrifice themselves, had they not been kept in ignorance, and their resistance would have bred more war, more deaths, more suffering.
Even so, did they deserves this end? She simply couldn't bring herself to agree with it.]