[ To be fair, it's the same questions she's annoyed other people keep asking her... but also, it feels callous not to ask, and there's only so many ways to phrase it. The answer is as expected as the question. She nods. ]
I know what you mean.
There's a lot to... process.
[ He looks guarded to her, closed in on himself. Smaller than she remembers.
There's a lot that she remembers -- at least, it feels that way, though thankfully it can't be more than snippets considering the imagined length of time. Still, it weighs on them all. She needs to know how much he can recall. Needs to know if it matters. ]
Viktor, I--
I need to know what you remember. About me.
[ About their project. It was a dream they'd both believed in then, in that place that never existed. She knows it's a dream based on his reality now. Based on the same pain that had driven him to give up the person he loved.
The cost was too steep, in Ciri's view. Too steep, on both accounts.
Are they destined to have these rifts between them? ]
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I know what you mean.
There's a lot to... process.
[ He looks guarded to her, closed in on himself. Smaller than she remembers.
There's a lot that she remembers -- at least, it feels that way, though thankfully it can't be more than snippets considering the imagined length of time. Still, it weighs on them all. She needs to know how much he can recall. Needs to know if it matters. ]
Viktor, I--
I need to know what you remember. About me.
[ About their project. It was a dream they'd both believed in then, in that place that never existed. She knows it's a dream based on his reality now. Based on the same pain that had driven him to give up the person he loved.
The cost was too steep, in Ciri's view. Too steep, on both accounts.
Are they destined to have these rifts between them? ]