I know that, it's just frustrating to not even have a chance! [Hand hands ball into fists.] Being forced to play our stupid parts--if I wasn't being knocked unconscious every curfew, there'd be something I actually could do.
[This place has robbed her freedom, and given nothing not pain in return. She wants to turn the whole thing upside down.]
Then we will find it, in time. So long as we keep looking.
[It's an even timber against her rise of (understandable) temper.]
If she returns like the rest, she is going to need someone there to give her courage when she might not have any. To remember her will be the best we can do, Dehya.
We may have very little control, but it's all the more reason to cling very hard to what is still ours, even if it's simpler than we'd like.
I know it's the best I can do right now, what I'm saying is I want to do more! [She puts her hand to her head with an aggrieved growl.] This isn't me stopping and looking, Solomon. If anything, it's even more important we find a way to get everyone out of here, including who died.
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[This place has robbed her freedom, and given nothing not pain in return. She wants to turn the whole thing upside down.]
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[It's an even timber against her rise of (understandable) temper.]
If she returns like the rest, she is going to need someone there to give her courage when she might not have any. To remember her will be the best we can do, Dehya.
We may have very little control, but it's all the more reason to cling very hard to what is still ours, even if it's simpler than we'd like.
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It would be easier if it were tangible. If it worked the way we expected.
It's hard not to feel like we're failing them all by not pushing outwardly with everything we have.
Perhaps that's how Father or Sika want it. For us to feel despair in this.
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[She assumes that's what he's trying to do.] We're not going to give into that despair. If we do, we really never will get out. What I am is angry.