"We can't go to mine, no," Elizabeth shakes her head vigorously. "If we're going to stay together, I can't go back there, ever!"
She curls into herself on top of Gai's chest. It's been a while since she's felt so small and helpless, but the bomb situation has finally cracked her where her future is concerned. Too many choices that weren't any sort of choice at all. Her fingers tighten into fists in Gai's shirt as she huddles against him.
"Robert told me that after Booker and I destroy the siphon, we find and kill the man who imprisoned me. And murdered his wife, and had Robert and Ms. Lutece killed. And built Columbia.
"And once we do that... it all comes apart. Without him, I'm never taken from my family, I'm never put in my tower, and I grow up with my family. I'm going to be a completely different person if I go back and kill him. It's worse than dying, I won't exist anymore...!"
[Mission 14 - Post-IC Discussion]
She curls into herself on top of Gai's chest. It's been a while since she's felt so small and helpless, but the bomb situation has finally cracked her where her future is concerned. Too many choices that weren't any sort of choice at all. Her fingers tighten into fists in Gai's shirt as she huddles against him.
"Robert told me that after Booker and I destroy the siphon, we find and kill the man who imprisoned me. And murdered his wife, and had Robert and Ms. Lutece killed. And built Columbia.
"And once we do that... it all comes apart. Without him, I'm never taken from my family, I'm never put in my tower, and I grow up with my family. I'm going to be a completely different person if I go back and kill him. It's worse than dying, I won't exist anymore...!"