[She falls silent again, contemplating that answer, trying to find a comparison in her own life.
Perhaps, she eventually decides, it's a little like Robert, eager to rejoin Columbia for the sole purpose of starting a family. Rosalind hadn't been opposed to the idea in principle (that is to say, adding a third person to their lives), but to go back, to instantiate themselves within Columbia and pretend not to know what was to come . . .
It would feel false. Like a parody of a life.]
You never told me, you know . . . what your intended outcome was in regards to that eternal night.
I did know someone who tried something along the same lines. And her motivation was ostensibly religious fervor, though I suspect her true reasons lay more in trained obedience.
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Perhaps, she eventually decides, it's a little like Robert, eager to rejoin Columbia for the sole purpose of starting a family. Rosalind hadn't been opposed to the idea in principle (that is to say, adding a third person to their lives), but to go back, to instantiate themselves within Columbia and pretend not to know what was to come . . .
It would feel false. Like a parody of a life.]
You never told me, you know . . . what your intended outcome was in regards to that eternal night.
I did know someone who tried something along the same lines. And her motivation was ostensibly religious fervor, though I suspect her true reasons lay more in trained obedience.