01 I did! I was already inside when everything started to happen, so I just stayed put. Not that I could actually go anywhere, but you know what I mean.
02 Oh, lots of them! I wasn't allowed out much when I was a child so I spent a lot of time reading poetry. How do you know so many? I didn't take you as a poet.
No I can't say I do. I haven't read much outside of Italian, French, and English and his name doesn't sound like it's from any of those places. Tell me more?
01 You read Italian and French. Winnie, you're making me feel underaccomplished here.
It's Coleridge, the poem. I used to like it a lot.
02 In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A sacred pleasure-dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea
03 That's all I can remember, I'm afraid. It goes on about gardens bright with sinuous rills, and things girdled with walls and towers. It's quite long.
Can you hear that wind coming up?
[Because Simon, from his position up in the cockpit of his rover, is starting to get more than a little alarmed. It's getting dark out there.]
01 She was very cheerful. I know she had quite a few friends here from her world.I should send my condolences to them. I'm not religious, but saying a prayer or two might be nice as well.
02 It's not a though I never expected anyone to die here. But not to that scale. Not like this.
01 I'm sorry you're not religious. I was going to ask if you had any bible verses upstairs. Alongside all that poetry.
Who were her friends? I might know some of them. But everyone will know someone...
02 I don't know what the correct thing is to do. That's so strange. Stand and support, isn't it, like any other death? It seems so inadequate. [And he's so, so angry and afraid. The latter is safe; the former is very definitely not.]
01 I'm sorry. Are you religious? If you have any verses I wouldn't mind them.
02 Mr. Levi, Mr. Erwin, Armin, Connie. I suppose Jean and Mikasa as well, since I believe they're all from the same planet.
03 I don't think this is the instructors fault. People are getting angry at them because they're in charge, but I want to believe they didn't want this either.
04 No one in charge wants something like this to happen under them.
01 I'm not religious either. If I was I'd have bothered to remember more verses. It's Psalm 23, isn't it? "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, he restoreth my soul...
02 "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. For thou art with me."
We're still here. Despite everything else, Winnie.
02 I think you're right about the instructors. I've known it since they got so angry with me. They really don't want anything to happen to us, and they'll do anything to stop it.
03 I should have seen it all along. I believe it now. [Because of course, if they were right, then he was wrong. He doesn't dare send the obvious, critical, But they might not be able to protect us. And if they can, their attention can be worse than dying.]
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I did! I was already inside when everything started to happen, so I just stayed put. Not that I could actually go anywhere, but you know what I mean.
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Oh, lots of them! I wasn't allowed out much when I was a child so I spent a lot of time reading poetry. How do you know so many? I didn't take you as a poet.
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I like poems. Some poems. [The ones everyone knows.] They made us learn a lot in school, but I don't recall them now.
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Do you have a favorite?
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Do you know Kubla Khan? "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a sacred pleasure dome decree"?
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You read Italian and French. Winnie, you're making me feel underaccomplished here.
It's Coleridge, the poem. I used to like it a lot.
02
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A sacred pleasure-dome decree
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea
03
That's all I can remember, I'm afraid. It goes on about gardens bright with sinuous rills, and things girdled with walls and towers. It's quite long.
Can you hear that wind coming up?
[Because Simon, from his position up in the cockpit of his rover, is starting to get more than a little alarmed. It's getting dark out there.]
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[in before she gets hooked on Harry Potter or something.]
It's starting to sound dreadful, isn't it? Do you have any idea what's happening, exactly?
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I don't know more than anyone else. You might want to brace yourself, though. Secure yourself in a bunk or something.
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Do you think it's a stampede? Oh no, poor Princess! I hope he'll be alright!
[Not being able to go out and check is killing her.]
I hope this blows over soon. :(
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Stampedes don't come out of the sky.
I wouldn't worry too much about your madu, Winnie. Just hold on tight.
[He checks his straps in the cockpit seat. And then? That's all he sends. Because then it—whatever it is—crashes right down over them.]
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I'm here.
02
Miss Sasha was so young.
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I know. I'm sorry.
Did you know her well? Or any of the others?
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I only knew her. We talked.
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She wanted to eat Princess. I got mad at her.
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We were going to make mittens together. We were going to learn to knit.
04
I'm no stranger to death, but it's so different here.
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I wish I'd spoken to her. She looks so happy in her picture. She seemed happy when I saw her around.
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She was very cheerful. I know she had quite a few friends here from her world.I should send my condolences to them. I'm not religious, but saying a prayer or two might be nice as well.
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It's not a though I never expected anyone to die here. But not to that scale. Not like this.
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I'm sorry you're not religious. I was going to ask if you had any bible verses upstairs. Alongside all that poetry.
Who were her friends? I might know some of them. But everyone will know someone...
02
I don't know what the correct thing is to do. That's so strange. Stand and support, isn't it, like any other death? It seems so inadequate. [And he's so, so angry and afraid. The latter is safe; the former is very definitely not.]
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I'm sorry. Are you religious? If you have any verses I wouldn't mind them.
02
Mr. Levi, Mr. Erwin, Armin, Connie. I suppose Jean and Mikasa as well, since I believe they're all from the same planet.
03
I don't think this is the instructors fault. People are getting angry at them because they're in charge, but I want to believe they didn't want this either.
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No one in charge wants something like this to happen under them.
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I'm not religious either. If I was I'd have bothered to remember more verses. It's Psalm 23, isn't it? "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, he restoreth my soul...
02
"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. For thou art with me."
We're still here. Despite everything else, Winnie.
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01
So there's no use in weeping,
Bear a cheerful spirit still;
Never doubt that Fate is keeping
Future good for present ill.
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Let us keep living and do our best for those who don't have that choice.
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Amen.
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I think you're right about the instructors. I've known it since they got so angry with me. They really don't want anything to happen to us, and they'll do anything to stop it.
03
I should have seen it all along. I believe it now. [Because of course, if they were right, then he was wrong. He doesn't dare send the obvious, critical, But they might not be able to protect us. And if they can, their attention can be worse than dying.]