wish i couldn’t imagine that i don't know how anyone could do that and live with themselves but i guess it makes a certain kind of awful sense
back home, noble families did stuff like that all the time killing this one’s cousin, kidnapping that one’s brother…
[She’s not trying to brush aside what Ema’s admitted, what she’s shared, only put something she finds so reprehensible in a context she’s a little more familiar with. And also, maybe, because Lys would rather not think too hard (or at all) about the very good advice that’s just been given regarding secrets, the damage they can cause simply by being carried for too long—like shrapnel inside a stitched-up wound.]
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i don't know how anyone could do that and live with themselves
but i guess it makes a certain kind of awful sense
back home, noble families did stuff like that all the time
killing this one’s cousin, kidnapping that one’s brother…
[She’s not trying to brush aside what Ema’s admitted, what she’s shared, only put something she finds so reprehensible in a context she’s a little more familiar with. And also, maybe, because Lys would rather not think too hard (or at all) about the very good advice that’s just been given regarding secrets, the damage they can cause simply by being carried for too long—like shrapnel inside a stitched-up wound.]
it’s messed up