[The figures in the background fade out, and all is still and silent.
Comet doesn't ask for an explanation. They don't dismiss it either, and they guess correctly. There isn't any hesitation when Malice replies.]
'Course I do. They were warmin' up to me, an' Cody... he accepted me. That place was startin' to feel like home.
[But then...]
I chose to sell 'em out. For a number of reasons, but those reasons ain't important now. Most of the rebels died not long after that conversation - Rosalie went after 'em an' crushed 'em all. Cody was killed. So many of the others were killed. An' that's somethin' I have to live with, 'cause I made a shitty decision an' got 'em killed.
[It was harder to admit all of this at the start of his time here, but the words leave him in a rush now. An explanation, sure, but his expression spells grief. If he could take it back, he would. If he could undo the damage he's dealt, he would. But the world doesn't work like that, so all he can do is try to be better going forward.]
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Comet doesn't ask for an explanation. They don't dismiss it either, and they guess correctly. There isn't any hesitation when Malice replies.]
'Course I do. They were warmin' up to me, an' Cody... he accepted me. That place was startin' to feel like home.
[But then...]
I chose to sell 'em out. For a number of reasons, but those reasons ain't important now. Most of the rebels died not long after that conversation - Rosalie went after 'em an' crushed 'em all. Cody was killed. So many of the others were killed. An' that's somethin' I have to live with, 'cause I made a shitty decision an' got 'em killed.
[It was harder to admit all of this at the start of his time here, but the words leave him in a rush now. An explanation, sure, but his expression spells grief. If he could take it back, he would. If he could undo the damage he's dealt, he would. But the world doesn't work like that, so all he can do is try to be better going forward.]