When you are lying in waiting with Palamedes to confront me about the head of Protosilaus the Seventh, return to Milliways instead, she tries out in her head.
"She will have to go back too, of course, eventually," she says. "But I do not want to rush her out of this solace."
"My hope is that she will still trust me enough to return with me, both together. For me it will be no time--well, hardly any time--at all." She will have to deal with Palamedes and the matter of the severed head. But for Gideon it will have been the worst day of her life, in between.
"I had thought... the salt water inlet... a clean breast of it." She looks sideways at Lan Wangji. "Whatever she decides to... you must help her, no matter what. Please. If I am dead she will need a future."
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Date: 2020-10-15 03:32 pm (UTC)"She will have to go back too, of course, eventually," she says. "But I do not want to rush her out of this solace."
"My hope is that she will still trust me enough to return with me, both together. For me it will be no time--well, hardly any time--at all." She will have to deal with Palamedes and the matter of the severed head. But for Gideon it will have been the worst day of her life, in between.
"I had thought... the salt water inlet... a clean breast of it." She looks sideways at Lan Wangji. "Whatever she decides to... you must help her, no matter what. Please. If I am dead she will need a future."