[She is very quiet as she thinks over what he's said. They can ready anyone and They always have the tools... more inevitabilities for her to accept. Were they doomed from the start? Was there any way to get their shared season offscript, to forge the ending the players wanted rather than the ending the producers had planned for?
...Chizuru doesn't think so. Not now that it's becoming so obvious that they used her to ruin her brother's plans.]
So... what... what do we do?
[Her voice is a whisper; she can't bring herself to meet his eyes.]
The producers aren't in Edo. Those people we were trapped with... they aren't in Edo. But we are. Where do we go from here?
[There is some measure of anxiety in her voice. She is terrified that once he accepts that this is her fault - because it's hers, hers and the producers, they tricked her and she let them because she was so desperate for the lies they offered that she didn't stop to think - he'll leave, that he'll see her for the worthless, rotten person she's become. And maybe he would be safer and happier that way, but she doesn't want to be apart from him because he chose it.
She'll leave him to keep him safe, but she can't bear for him to leave her.]
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...Chizuru doesn't think so. Not now that it's becoming so obvious that they used her to ruin her brother's plans.]
So... what... what do we do?
[Her voice is a whisper; she can't bring herself to meet his eyes.]
The producers aren't in Edo. Those people we were trapped with... they aren't in Edo. But we are. Where do we go from here?
[There is some measure of anxiety in her voice. She is terrified that once he accepts that this is her fault - because it's hers, hers and the producers, they tricked her and she let them because she was so desperate for the lies they offered that she didn't stop to think - he'll leave, that he'll see her for the worthless, rotten person she's become. And maybe he would be safer and happier that way, but she doesn't want to be apart from him because he chose it.
She'll leave him to keep him safe, but she can't bear for him to leave her.]