... I understand all of you perfectly well. I understood that you would return my Keys to me. I understood what was inside your Hearts and your minds the moment you entered the World. I always have. There was never any reason for me to care.
You both have attachment to him that you have placed because you cannot bear to lose another person. Your Heart has suffered loss after consecutive loss enough that you place blame squarely upon your own shoulders. You and the other Alice share that trait. Where you differ... is that you are beginning to numb to even that.
Soon you will be entirely like me.
[ ... There's no reason for this to be this way, he thinks. He'll lower the Key, but he won't let go of Sasuke. The others will find they won't be able to advance towards him, and Sasuke will be incapable of leaving his grasp. ]
... That's all right. He wants to go beyond that, is all. A step past it. I promised to help. I am not sending him back out there. [ A pause. ] ... This is more talking than I like to do. It's getting tiresome.
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You both have attachment to him that you have placed because you cannot bear to lose another person. Your Heart has suffered loss after consecutive loss enough that you place blame squarely upon your own shoulders. You and the other Alice share that trait. Where you differ... is that you are beginning to numb to even that.
Soon you will be entirely like me.
[ ... There's no reason for this to be this way, he thinks. He'll lower the Key, but he won't let go of Sasuke. The others will find they won't be able to advance towards him, and Sasuke will be incapable of leaving his grasp. ]
... That's all right. He wants to go beyond that, is all. A step past it. I promised to help. I am not sending him back out there. [ A pause. ] ... This is more talking than I like to do. It's getting tiresome.