[Sieglinde starts to protest, an automatic gesture, but a silence overtakes her when she realizes that she doesn't quite know which words to use. It is too delicate and serious a matter to choose them rashly.
Stops.
Breathes a moment. Tries to smile back, and manages, fingers curling in the apron she wears over her voluminous skirts.]
... it is not wanting to return home.
[Masamune had asked her to go to his world, to be a princess among his people rather than return to a village of ash and dust. She had even accepted... on the condition that she had to return the cure she'd found to her world first. But whether or not that condition was even possible had become less important to her, after Masamune had been taken from her.]
... but I have duties.
[Yet even saying that... she didn't sound sure of which to side with.]
no subject
[Sieglinde starts to protest, an automatic gesture, but a silence overtakes her when she realizes that she doesn't quite know which words to use. It is too delicate and serious a matter to choose them rashly.
Stops.
Breathes a moment. Tries to smile back, and manages, fingers curling in the apron she wears over her voluminous skirts.]
... it is not wanting to return home.
[Masamune had asked her to go to his world, to be a princess among his people rather than return to a village of ash and dust. She had even accepted... on the condition that she had to return the cure she'd found to her world first. But whether or not that condition was even possible had become less important to her, after Masamune had been taken from her.]
... but I have duties.
[Yet even saying that... she didn't sound sure of which to side with.]