[as he removes his hand, she keeps hers still pressed against her chest, his slight smile still getting a look of utmost determination in her gaze.
Allura's never been someone to give up on something. and with the weight of the loss of Akvos still weighing heavy on her, she cannot bear to think of there being an impossibility of love. even though she knows what Lotor says is partly the truth, that there was no love in his life. but...]
You can extend that love and faith I have in you, to yourself. [she has to try.] I know...what had happened to that planet you tried to help was horrifying. But I also know that kindness does not ruin lives. And you were kind, in the only way you knew how to be.
Zarkon would have destroyed that planet, those people, regardless of how you handled it. What happened was not your fault.
[and even though he pulled back from her, she reaches forward, to rest her hand at his bicep, keeping her presence physical.
there is a feeling in her gut that she knows what else is haunting him. it's the very thing that caused their rift in the first place. that broke their short lived happiness together. and while she knows they can never go back to what they once had, she knows ruminating causes more problems than solves them.]
And...what will happen, should we ever return to our universe, does trouble me. I cannot say I know what will happen with certainty, but we can do things differently here.
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Allura's never been someone to give up on something. and with the weight of the loss of Akvos still weighing heavy on her, she cannot bear to think of there being an impossibility of love. even though she knows what Lotor says is partly the truth, that there was no love in his life. but...]
You can extend that love and faith I have in you, to yourself. [she has to try.] I know...what had happened to that planet you tried to help was horrifying. But I also know that kindness does not ruin lives. And you were kind, in the only way you knew how to be.
Zarkon would have destroyed that planet, those people, regardless of how you handled it. What happened was not your fault.
[and even though he pulled back from her, she reaches forward, to rest her hand at his bicep, keeping her presence physical.
there is a feeling in her gut that she knows what else is haunting him. it's the very thing that caused their rift in the first place. that broke their short lived happiness together. and while she knows they can never go back to what they once had, she knows ruminating causes more problems than solves them.]
And...what will happen, should we ever return to our universe, does trouble me. I cannot say I know what will happen with certainty, but we can do things differently here.
What you do here matters, Lotor.