But you won't be like him. [Elizabeth is happy to face Gai again--she doesn't think he's angry at all, or that he's placing any blame on her. Just like the night Gai came back to Luceti, Elizabeth believes that she was the one to start this. So she wants to fix it.]
[She reaches up to stroke his cheek again.] Mostly because I've seen you separate the leader side of you from what you show me. ...But also because I'm not having children with you if you ever talk about trying anything scientific with them whatsoever. [She smiles and lightly taps Gai's cheek in a play-slap. Then she looks down at herself, tries to tuck in again.]
I shouldn't have joked about it, though. Columbia was... very strict in its views on everything. Radical, even. [She knows that word as it applies to religion now. When she had realized that other religions besides that of Columbia existed, she had been shocked and fascinated. And then, of course, she had found the counter opinions on everything...]
I was taught, when I was younger, that I was never to 'join' with any man before I married him. 'But who am I supposed to marry? I've seen no other man here before,' I thought. I had my dreams, of course. That I would meet someone, and we would fall in love and be married. And then join with him to have children--and only to conceive children.
This has been absolutely nothing like what I had imagined, and I love that it's nothing like what I imagined because it's incredibly real. But sometimes I'm afraid that I am indecent, and spoiled, and a whore. Because I love how this feels...
[That can't be right, though. How could something that made her feel so loved be bad? Elizabeth looks up at Gai, still worried and confused.] Tell me what it's like where you come from. Is this wrong where you're from too?
September 26th - The Marathon
[She reaches up to stroke his cheek again.] Mostly because I've seen you separate the leader side of you from what you show me. ...But also because I'm not having children with you if you ever talk about trying anything scientific with them whatsoever. [She smiles and lightly taps Gai's cheek in a play-slap. Then she looks down at herself, tries to tuck in again.]
I shouldn't have joked about it, though. Columbia was... very strict in its views on everything. Radical, even. [She knows that word as it applies to religion now. When she had realized that other religions besides that of Columbia existed, she had been shocked and fascinated. And then, of course, she had found the counter opinions on everything...]
I was taught, when I was younger, that I was never to 'join' with any man before I married him. 'But who am I supposed to marry? I've seen no other man here before,' I thought. I had my dreams, of course. That I would meet someone, and we would fall in love and be married. And then join with him to have children--and only to conceive children.
This has been absolutely nothing like what I had imagined, and I love that it's nothing like what I imagined because it's incredibly real. But sometimes I'm afraid that I am indecent, and spoiled, and a whore. Because I love how this feels...
[That can't be right, though. How could something that made her feel so loved be bad? Elizabeth looks up at Gai, still worried and confused.] Tell me what it's like where you come from. Is this wrong where you're from too?