Most like they would falter in that. I am of a difficult and displeasing temperament.
( She remembers saying something like that to Cosima before she left, there is something self-aware and questioning and-- and deliberate and cautious in it. Different elements and reasons that she's not sure how to disentangle.
So much of what she'd like to do now would be a presumption, would be... foolish, cruel, were she to be ordered away again. Selfish, without doubt. )
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( She remembers saying something like that to Cosima before she left, there is something self-aware and questioning and-- and deliberate and cautious in it. Different elements and reasons that she's not sure how to disentangle.
So much of what she'd like to do now would be a presumption, would be... foolish, cruel, were she to be ordered away again. Selfish, without doubt. )