[Which is true. The last few days prior to waking up here were some of the busiest of Caitlyn's life. For now, at least, she's content to take his words at face value.]
It's a little hard to explain. Before, I'd never really considered what it was like. It just... was?
[The words are picked carefully. There's a slowness to her speech that says she's having to think things through as she voices them. Because it's not something Caitlyn's really had to think about before here. Before now it's just been how things were and there was nothing to be done about it.]
All my life that Duty has just been there. No matter what I did or said, it's always been in the background. An invevitablity?
[That background has been wiped clean so to speak. Leaving Caitlyn to realize just how much it actually had been stifling.]
And now it's gone. It's strange, but not unpleasant. [A moment's hesitation and then a soft smile.] So I suppose yes, it has been quite stifling.
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[Which is true. The last few days prior to waking up here were some of the busiest of Caitlyn's life. For now, at least, she's content to take his words at face value.]
It's a little hard to explain. Before, I'd never really considered what it was like. It just... was?
[The words are picked carefully. There's a slowness to her speech that says she's having to think things through as she voices them. Because it's not something Caitlyn's really had to think about before here. Before now it's just been how things were and there was nothing to be done about it.]
All my life that Duty has just been there. No matter what I did or said, it's always been in the background. An invevitablity?
[That background has been wiped clean so to speak. Leaving Caitlyn to realize just how much it actually had been stifling.]
And now it's gone. It's strange, but not unpleasant. [A moment's hesitation and then a soft smile.] So I suppose yes, it has been quite stifling.