(This isn't matching up. Merle and Magnus 'did well'? They 'loved'? Loved who? Lucretia takes her hand out of Lup's.)
He isn't alone Lup, I made sure– I left him at a village where I knew he'd have people around him who would care and look after him. The only reason I erased you from the narrative in the first place was because I couldn't bear to watch him and Barry tear themselves apart over being unable to find you. I wasn't trying to make him feel like he had nobody, I would never– I could never do that, to either of you.
(She had obsessively checked up on all of them in that first year and none of them had seemed unhappy. That hadn't ever been the point of erasing their memories: it was only ever to keep them from having to do the heavy lifting while she took into her own hands the reversing of the original plan. Why put them through all the suffering if she could just do it herself and save them the pain? She'd done it before, on cycle sixty-five. She'd taken a year and fixed everything, even the ship– )
I know that it isn't the most elegant solution, but I know what I'm doing! Why can't you trust me?
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(This isn't matching up. Merle and Magnus 'did well'? They 'loved'? Loved who? Lucretia takes her hand out of Lup's.)
He isn't alone Lup, I made sure– I left him at a village where I knew he'd have people around him who would care and look after him. The only reason I erased you from the narrative in the first place was because I couldn't bear to watch him and Barry tear themselves apart over being unable to find you. I wasn't trying to make him feel like he had nobody, I would never– I could never do that, to either of you.
(She had obsessively checked up on all of them in that first year and none of them had seemed unhappy. That hadn't ever been the point of erasing their memories: it was only ever to keep them from having to do the heavy lifting while she took into her own hands the reversing of the original plan. Why put them through all the suffering if she could just do it herself and save them the pain? She'd done it before, on cycle sixty-five. She'd taken a year and fixed everything, even the ship– )
I know that it isn't the most elegant solution, but I know what I'm doing! Why can't you trust me?