No, you weren't locked up anywhere. [ Had that... Was that what she'd seen that night, when he'd been dreaming on Hyrypia and hadn't been able to talk about it? Hadn't wanted her to know what those awful impressions had meant? Had someone locked him up and--
She can't think about that right now. She can't let the horror of it consume her or it will wash away everything else. ]
I didn't know I'd been given your blood. No one did. But even if I had... I don't know that I would have made a different choice. [ She ducks her head, remembering the next morning when she'd admitted to both him and Stefan that she'd been ready to die. For all the good things that had been in her life, the pain had overwhelmed them at times and she'd been ready to finally have it be over. But even now when she no longer feels that way, when she wants to live the life she's been given, she still couldn't let one of her friends die in her place. It just isn't who she is. ]
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She can't think about that right now. She can't let the horror of it consume her or it will wash away everything else. ]
I didn't know I'd been given your blood. No one did. But even if I had... I don't know that I would have made a different choice. [ She ducks her head, remembering the next morning when she'd admitted to both him and Stefan that she'd been ready to die. For all the good things that had been in her life, the pain had overwhelmed them at times and she'd been ready to finally have it be over. But even now when she no longer feels that way, when she wants to live the life she's been given, she still couldn't let one of her friends die in her place. It just isn't who she is. ]