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28th metal . voice

The Admiral makes you a warden before you finish learning. Finding out what's right and what's wrong.

Is that because you never stop learning?

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But he knows exactly where to hit. I know what he did to you there, and the breach - it let him cheat.

[This makes her angry. He's breaking the rules. Caring about Zane makes her angry, too.]

You can heal, but a repeated, unrelenting assault - no one's invulnerable. I'd hate to see you fall again, after all your work.

[She makes it sound snide because she means it, and she doesn't want to.]

You're worried.

About you? Please.

I can hear it.

You're imagining things.

I don't imagine things like that.

Why do you even care?

You were family! Why do you think I care?

[She flinches.]

That family just hurt you. So it shouldn't matter.

It does.

I'm just as much a coward here as I was there.

But I didn't hurt you. I kept you safe. Do you know how important that is to me? Even in worlds like that, I can still love.

. . . You did.

You kept me safe.

You and Anya made that world better than the one I grew up in. In that world, all I had was my father.

I'm sorry.

You don't - have anything to apologize for. Not to me. Everything you did, I did worse.

Not for that. I'm sorry he's interested in you now.

I'll try to distract him.

I'll survive.

Don't use me as an excuse to be near him.

I have plenty of other excuses.

[Which is a lot more honest than she meant to be, really.]

[ In this silence: disapproval. He wants to stop her. He won't, but he wants to. ]

I have to beat him. You can understand that, can't you?

I don't think it's possible. Do you?

If you play his game, you lose.

I think it's possible. I just have to figure out how. I don't have to win everything, just do better than him.

And what's the cost?

Significant. But I'm already dead. What does it matter?

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