[ Root meets Charles's eyes insistently, a full wellspring of passionate belief burgeoning up inside her. The dedication and devotion that she has, that she chooses to direct at the Machine, at Harold, at Sameen, and now a little bit at Charles. Someone strong enough not just to survive but to change. ]
If one person loves us, remembers us -- if we help even one person -- there's something that goes on after us. People die and they can't come back. We can't come back.
But there's a person I care about very much -- [ she stumbles a bit verbally, realizing the way she describes Harold has changed, that he's no longer the man who made god or the architect of the future, but in this context just-- ] a friend, the best I've ever had. He's alive out there because of me.
The world is harsh and terrible, but that doesn't make it pointless. Not like being killed over and over again, like a life is cheap.
[ She used to think that way, believed it fully as a way to protect and insulate herself, but she can't anymore. She just can't. It's been too many years with the Machine and with Harold. ]
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[ Root meets Charles's eyes insistently, a full wellspring of passionate belief burgeoning up inside her. The dedication and devotion that she has, that she chooses to direct at the Machine, at Harold, at Sameen, and now a little bit at Charles. Someone strong enough not just to survive but to change. ]
If one person loves us, remembers us -- if we help even one person -- there's something that goes on after us. People die and they can't come back. We can't come back.
But there's a person I care about very much -- [ she stumbles a bit verbally, realizing the way she describes Harold has changed, that he's no longer the man who made god or the architect of the future, but in this context just-- ] a friend, the best I've ever had. He's alive out there because of me.
The world is harsh and terrible, but that doesn't make it pointless. Not like being killed over and over again, like a life is cheap.
[ She used to think that way, believed it fully as a way to protect and insulate herself, but she can't anymore. She just can't. It's been too many years with the Machine and with Harold. ]