In some ways, she knows its truth far too deeply for her own comfort. Intently enough it is impossible to ignore. Though her House's issue has never quite been neutrality so much as disconnect and perhaps secrecy favoring anonymity—the more they shut off from the rest of the world in every aspect, the more things crumbled. The mistakes of the generation before her, the mistakes that lead to her very existence, and choices made by a pair of desperate adults helping a child to rule.
Much as her first instinct is to say You're right, she schools it into, "A valid thought. One wonders how much the politics of these places are our problems—and yet, here we are." There's more she could say, more that she probably should say to someone: the essence of the fact that the destruction of the Singularity may trap them there forever and how that scares her being the primary concern. But Harrow has never been good at saying things she should. She is only mildly better at projecting them.
"It doesn't concern you that the Singularity's end might mean we all die?"
(Stop talking, says a voice in her head, which she agrees with, but ignores.)
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In some ways, she knows its truth far too deeply for her own comfort. Intently enough it is impossible to ignore. Though her House's issue has never quite been neutrality so much as disconnect and perhaps secrecy favoring anonymity—the more they shut off from the rest of the world in every aspect, the more things crumbled. The mistakes of the generation before her, the mistakes that lead to her very existence, and choices made by a pair of desperate adults helping a child to rule.
Much as her first instinct is to say You're right, she schools it into, "A valid thought. One wonders how much the politics of these places are our problems—and yet, here we are." There's more she could say, more that she probably should say to someone: the essence of the fact that the destruction of the Singularity may trap them there forever and how that scares her being the primary concern. But Harrow has never been good at saying things she should. She is only mildly better at projecting them.
"It doesn't concern you that the Singularity's end might mean we all die?"
(Stop talking, says a voice in her head, which she agrees with, but ignores.)