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[one_one_se7en]

[From this voice, some other strange sounds can be heard, almost muted. Like a storm heard only from kilometers afar.]

So...

Can anyone hear me? I'm a little curious if it is a latent symptom of schizophrenia, but I get the feeling the Chief hasn't lost his marbles just yet.

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[one_one_se7en]

Change?

You don't "change" loyalty, especially when he begged you to come -- when he was loyal to you. Even now he still hopes you'll come.

[waterfell]

[But she has changed loyalty, so completely that it shook everything and those tremors spread out to change her entire world. An appeal to loyalty means very little to her.

But the thought of someone waiting and hoping is different. She knows it all too well: the quiet way of sitting, what it feels like knowing it's hopeless but trying to believe all the same, trying to convince yourself it's fine if it doesn't come true.

Still...]

I'm saying no.

[But that seed stays planted in the back of her mind, harder to shake off than she'd have expected.]

[one_one_se7en]

[She stays silent. John had put his faith on this girl for five years, and even Cortana was willing to follow him in spite of the envy she saw in herself, too. But now that they are separated, and a chance finally appeared for the two of them to reunite, Cortana realizes a brutal truth.

She was a coward. For once, she feels John's faith was misplaced.]

Whatever happens in our world, it will happen because you weren't there when you were given a choice.

Keep that in mind as you cry inside of your castle. The only person you're lying to is yourself.