[ Saya pulls back to look at him, her eyes human-seeming once again. Whether it's stubbornness or a fool's hope, he hasn't, or won't, heard the reasons she offered, and there's only so many hearts she has to pour out. She's told him they will end badly, and he won't accept it, and it's terribly endearing. She was never built to be as alone as she deserves. ]
[ It's wrong of her to want someone beside her as her life goes down in flames, yet she does. ]
[ Reaching out, she brushes his hair behind his ear, a gesture they've traded since he found her at the Zoo. ] I know. But I don't want to keep hurting you, [ or myself ] and I think that's all I can ever do. [ So just -- remember, when it all goes bad, that she tried. ]
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[ It's wrong of her to want someone beside her as her life goes down in flames, yet she does. ]
[ Reaching out, she brushes his hair behind his ear, a gesture they've traded since he found her at the Zoo. ] I know. But I don't want to keep hurting you, [ or myself ] and I think that's all I can ever do. [ So just -- remember, when it all goes bad, that she tried. ]