[We won't. She swallows the lump in her throat because it's not so easy to say that anymore. They've all tried, done everything they could to separate themselves from the Intoners, but look at what happened to Clover. What's to say that couldn't happen to the rest of them? None of them can guarantee anything. It's why she ignores how Jasmine tenses up, thinking (hoping) it's only because of how terrifying this situation is.]
I don't either. We don't have to be. [She settles for that instead, tries to tell herself she really does believe it. That they don't have to be them, they don't have to end up like how they did, because the alternative is—too unfair, too unjust, too unreasonable. The world has never been kind, Rose knows that deep in her bones, but how could it be acceptable for that to be the answer? She can't stand the idea of it.] What we're doing right now is already something they could never do.
[That, if nothing else, is the objective truth. Never in a million years would Zero and One reconcile. It's proof that they can be better than them.
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I don't either. We don't have to be. [She settles for that instead, tries to tell herself she really does believe it. That they don't have to be them, they don't have to end up like how they did, because the alternative is—too unfair, too unjust, too unreasonable. The world has never been kind, Rose knows that deep in her bones, but how could it be acceptable for that to be the answer? She can't stand the idea of it.] What we're doing right now is already something they could never do.
[That, if nothing else, is the objective truth. Never in a million years would Zero and One reconcile. It's proof that they can be better than them.
Right?]