It would have been better if it was an accusation. Robert's hands lift off the keys, and he sits at the piano, considering it.
He could explain that DeWitt had things to atone for, that he had a debt to repay, even if it wasn't the memory he'd created for himself. But that might hurt her. That would mean telling her the things she doesn't know yet, the things that will change everything.]
I didn't think I could. [He could leave it at that, but he won't.]
Songbird wasn't of my creation -- I didn't know how to stop him. I also wasn't very good at violence, not... on a large scale, and I knew the fight it would be to get you even out of that tower. I needed someone far more capable and far more accustomed to it.
I think... at the time... I was afraid, too. To try. To leave Columbia myself. Because I couldn't have just sent you off. I couldn't have just left you alone.
[He smiles faintly and makes a very soft admission:] And Rosalind never would have gone with me.
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It would have been better if it was an accusation. Robert's hands lift off the keys, and he sits at the piano, considering it.
He could explain that DeWitt had things to atone for, that he had a debt to repay, even if it wasn't the memory he'd created for himself. But that might hurt her. That would mean telling her the things she doesn't know yet, the things that will change everything.]
I didn't think I could. [He could leave it at that, but he won't.]
Songbird wasn't of my creation -- I didn't know how to stop him. I also wasn't very good at violence, not... on a large scale, and I knew the fight it would be to get you even out of that tower. I needed someone far more capable and far more accustomed to it.
I think... at the time... I was afraid, too. To try. To leave Columbia myself. Because I couldn't have just sent you off. I couldn't have just left you alone.
[He smiles faintly and makes a very soft admission:] And Rosalind never would have gone with me.