(It's fitting that Taako is staring at the ceiling while he speaks, because she is looking down at her hands, which she has drawn tight into her lap, fingers twined together. It's not okay, but it's the most that she's going to get and she'll learn to be fine with it. He doesn't ever have to forgive her. She's glad he heard her out at all.
Now he is thanking her for apologising to him for ruining his life; Lucretia has to blink back the tears.)
Please don't say that. It took me far too long to say it, to even realise it.
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(It's fitting that Taako is staring at the ceiling while he speaks, because she is looking down at her hands, which she has drawn tight into her lap, fingers twined together. It's not okay, but it's the most that she's going to get and she'll learn to be fine with it. He doesn't ever have to forgive her. She's glad he heard her out at all.
Now he is thanking her for apologising to him for ruining his life; Lucretia has to blink back the tears.)
Please don't say that. It took me far too long to say it, to even realise it.