It's a thought that, over the last half decade, consumed Robert's mind. Rosalind was of the mind to always look forward; Robert often looked back, too. Rosalind did not worry about what she could not change; Robert felt regret.
He sighed softly, withdrawing his hand.]
A great deal.
[He even shifted a bit, as if to loosen her light hold on him, to reinforce that distance.]
It would have been the simplest thing to have taken you to our home. No one would have questioned me, possibly not even Comstock. [Not if Robert had realised his mistake early enough, not if he'd been quick enough.] And there... with our machine? Rosalind and I could have seen you well out of his reach.
[That, perhaps, had been the worst part his last years alive and the years after that: knowing how powerful he had been and how many opportunities he'd squandered.]
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It's a thought that, over the last half decade, consumed Robert's mind. Rosalind was of the mind to always look forward; Robert often looked back, too. Rosalind did not worry about what she could not change; Robert felt regret.
He sighed softly, withdrawing his hand.]
A great deal.
[He even shifted a bit, as if to loosen her light hold on him, to reinforce that distance.]
It would have been the simplest thing to have taken you to our home. No one would have questioned me, possibly not even Comstock. [Not if Robert had realised his mistake early enough, not if he'd been quick enough.] And there... with our machine? Rosalind and I could have seen you well out of his reach.
[That, perhaps, had been the worst part his last years alive and the years after that: knowing how powerful he had been and how many opportunities he'd squandered.]