[ Gray's lungs seem to arrest, the air too frozen for her to breathe. It's easy to assume the worst, that the Regent deemed Barnaby and the rest irredeemable. The thought of calm, cool, good-hearted Barnaby put to death leaves an icy print on Gray's heart.
She understands what Ciel is driving at. Keep in line. Don't do anything to mark yourself a traitor, or you might be next. That's all good and sensible. But there's still something in Gray's essence that chooses unwisely to protest and be unhappy. It takes her a long time to formulate a response, and when it comes it's restrained in a different way than usual for her, uncommonly bitter. ]
I understand.
[ Why Ciel is talking about these things, where she's going with them. ]
But if we claim that we want to discard this world because of its suffering, why are we only adding to that suffering?
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Date: 2022-08-08 04:07 am (UTC)She understands what Ciel is driving at. Keep in line. Don't do anything to mark yourself a traitor, or you might be next. That's all good and sensible. But there's still something in Gray's essence that chooses unwisely to protest and be unhappy. It takes her a long time to formulate a response, and when it comes it's restrained in a different way than usual for her, uncommonly bitter. ]
I understand.
[ Why Ciel is talking about these things, where she's going with them. ]
But if we claim that we want to discard this world because of its suffering, why are we only adding to that suffering?