[It's all true. All disagreement would have done, the only thing she'd have gained by digging her heels in, would have been an argument. How could she have told Rise to forget about her brother, for the sake of a person that Wednesday had known for a matter of days? It's absurd: she never could have done it. There's a logical voice in her head that sounds a lot like Sunshine's: if only it wasn't being drowned out by the voice of guilt, guilt, guilt.]
I know. I'm sorry. I... need to hold onto that, don't I? I could never have told Rise any different and - and that was as much as any of us could do, once they'd caught us. Isn't it?
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[It's all true. All disagreement would have done, the only thing she'd have gained by digging her heels in, would have been an argument. How could she have told Rise to forget about her brother, for the sake of a person that Wednesday had known for a matter of days? It's absurd: she never could have done it. There's a logical voice in her head that sounds a lot like Sunshine's: if only it wasn't being drowned out by the voice of guilt, guilt, guilt.]
I know. I'm sorry. I... need to hold onto that, don't I? I could never have told Rise any different and - and that was as much as any of us could do, once they'd caught us. Isn't it?
[Oh, she hopes so.]