[It's not really an answer to his question, but it's the lead-in to it, perhaps. The first sentence of the introductory paragraph. There will be a thesis statement, sooner or later.]
Not the way that you did. I don't think I could pick up a weapon and take a life for...a cause. For something so big that it forgets the people wrapped up in it.
[Her lip quakes again. She feels sure, somehow, that she's saying this wrong. That it's a horrible insult, somehow, rendered terribly through gawky words that she can't make right.]
But to protect you, I would. To protect Adrian, I would. And...
[She's shaking, now, but she hasn't looked away from him. She hasn't forgotten how often, either, she's thought of ordering him against throwing his life away.]
If...if it was to come home to the both of you again...then — then maybe...I could.
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[It's not really an answer to his question, but it's the lead-in to it, perhaps. The first sentence of the introductory paragraph. There will be a thesis statement, sooner or later.]
Not the way that you did. I don't think I could pick up a weapon and take a life for...a cause. For something so big that it forgets the people wrapped up in it.
[Her lip quakes again. She feels sure, somehow, that she's saying this wrong. That it's a horrible insult, somehow, rendered terribly through gawky words that she can't make right.]
But to protect you, I would. To protect Adrian, I would. And...
[She's shaking, now, but she hasn't looked away from him. She hasn't forgotten how often, either, she's thought of ordering him against throwing his life away.]
If...if it was to come home to the both of you again...then — then maybe...I could.