[ Easily, they say something that takes her aback.
Roxana has one other goal other than simply surviving, something she's worked towards slowly but surely for years, but its stakes are dependent on her survival. Even if she knows the dead aren't truly dead, she still has no guarantee they can come back. She has never had a guarantee for anything. Everything has always been a risk.
She moves for selfish reasons, and even if Clarte's selflessness can be selfish, that is still one of the fundamental differences between them.
She looks at them for a long while, turning their words over in her head, and she still can't figure out: ]
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Roxana has one other goal other than simply surviving, something she's worked towards slowly but surely for years, but its stakes are dependent on her survival. Even if she knows the dead aren't truly dead, she still has no guarantee they can come back. She has never had a guarantee for anything. Everything has always been a risk.
She moves for selfish reasons, and even if Clarte's selflessness can be selfish, that is still one of the fundamental differences between them.
She looks at them for a long while, turning their words over in her head, and she still can't figure out: ]
Why?
[ There's no reason for them to. ]