[She understands that feeling of being undeserving yet unable to suppress one's heart's desire, and despite her wish to console him, she grasps in vain for comforting words.]
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Perhaps, that was your punishment.
[There's no spite or mockery in her voice. After all, if having his loved ones by his side yet estranged was his punishment, then hers was to know the horrible truth of her world while her loved ones surrounded her in blissful ignorance.]
Rather than receive it here in the afterlife, we already lived it.
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Perhaps, that was your punishment.
[There's no spite or mockery in her voice. After all, if having his loved ones by his side yet estranged was his punishment, then hers was to know the horrible truth of her world while her loved ones surrounded her in blissful ignorance.]
Rather than receive it here in the afterlife, we already lived it.