[If nothing else, Frieda is good at keeping secrets - the one about the truth of her world, she took to her grave. (Now, of course, over half her fellow souls here know.)
Hearing Kel's denial about Sunny's suicide steepens her frown, but she doesn't say anything. What good would it do to force him to confront it? Besides, on some level, he must know. He's smart and perceptive. Chances are it's simply too painful to face.
His mention of him and Sunny being the only two who can control each other's memories confused her. What does he mean, "control"? That aside, though, the way he believes that his feelings don't matter in the face of assessing what Sunny remembers... that reminds her of herself, back when she was 15. "Leave it to me, father! I won't give in to the ghosts of our ancestors!"
She'll get back to the plan, but she simply needs to address it.]
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Kel, I don't say this to be cruel to you, but if you always saw yourself as fast and strong, as the one who'll save the day, and then you couldn't do it in the end, then maybe you weren't as fast and strong as you thought. I made the same mistake. I thought I could save everyone, back home. I thought I'd be stronger than my uncle and grandfather had been, and... I wasn't. I failed in a much worse way than you did. So please, don't blame yourself for failing. Blame yourself for taking on more than you could handle, if you must blame yourself for something.
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Hearing Kel's denial about Sunny's suicide steepens her frown, but she doesn't say anything. What good would it do to force him to confront it? Besides, on some level, he must know. He's smart and perceptive. Chances are it's simply too painful to face.
His mention of him and Sunny being the only two who can control each other's memories confused her. What does he mean, "control"? That aside, though, the way he believes that his feelings don't matter in the face of assessing what Sunny remembers... that reminds her of herself, back when she was 15. "Leave it to me, father! I won't give in to the ghosts of our ancestors!"
She'll get back to the plan, but she simply needs to address it.]
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Kel, I don't say this to be cruel to you, but if you always saw yourself as fast and strong, as the one who'll save the day, and then you couldn't do it in the end, then maybe you weren't as fast and strong as you thought. I made the same mistake. I thought I could save everyone, back home. I thought I'd be stronger than my uncle and grandfather had been, and... I wasn't. I failed in a much worse way than you did. So please, don't blame yourself for failing. Blame yourself for taking on more than you could handle, if you must blame yourself for something.