[Her first statement actually makes Robert chuckle. There's a genuine -- small, but very real -- smile on his features as he begins to nod in acknowledgement of the truth in it.
Then, Elizabeth goes on, and his smile alters. First thinning, then... he can't keep it up at all. It hits on a thought he's been nursing since he could truly take in what happened since his arrival here.
He'd intended to see Elizabeth back to the New York in which Booker DeWitt lived. He hadn't foreseen how stunning her powers would prove or how resolute she and DeWitt would be. He had not known how to break the cycle of events, how the story would end. And he had only begun to fathom the cost of it.
Without a Comstock, Rosalind would struggle. It was the work of a driven zealot that had funded her grandest creations, that had made her more than just a woman strangely interested in physics. That genius would go unregarded. They might each, in their restarted timelines, discover the Lutece Field again. Perhaps they'd even open the window again. But without Comstock, there would never be a Lutece Tear. They would always be separated.
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Then, Elizabeth goes on, and his smile alters. First thinning, then... he can't keep it up at all. It hits on a thought he's been nursing since he could truly take in what happened since his arrival here.
He'd intended to see Elizabeth back to the New York in which Booker DeWitt lived. He hadn't foreseen how stunning her powers would prove or how resolute she and DeWitt would be. He had not known how to break the cycle of events, how the story would end. And he had only begun to fathom the cost of it.
Without a Comstock, Rosalind would struggle. It was the work of a driven zealot that had funded her grandest creations, that had made her more than just a woman strangely interested in physics. That genius would go unregarded. They might each, in their restarted timelines, discover the Lutece Field again. Perhaps they'd even open the window again. But without Comstock, there would never be a Lutece Tear. They would always be separated.
Robert sighed softly.]
I would like it very much if she was here.