[She squeezes his hands encouragingly, and thinks back to the conversation they had back in Castle Thorne, so many months ago.]
But maybe I'm Catherine the Great after all. She didn't become the Great until she lost her husband. And I'm not going to let anything happen to you or Julie. Or Susan, because she's one of us now.
[That's not a debatable point, she and Julie already decided.]
We can still have so much of what we were promised. We'll just have to work a little harder.
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[She squeezes his hands encouragingly, and thinks back to the conversation they had back in Castle Thorne, so many months ago.]
But maybe I'm Catherine the Great after all. She didn't become the Great until she lost her husband. And I'm not going to let anything happen to you or Julie. Or Susan, because she's one of us now.
[That's not a debatable point, she and Julie already decided.]
We can still have so much of what we were promised. We'll just have to work a little harder.