So it's more important for Kadi to be there for this one, very tiny person who will never remember, than for her to be there fore everyone here who will very much remember and whose lives might hang in the balance. But it's put to her this way, and she slowly realizes that, to these people, her life means less than it would to her daughter. She's not just another body here, she's her child's mother. So her footsteps freeze, and she has to think on what that means.
"I..." There's a long, long pause as the others march ahead of her. After they've gone on a way, she turns back to help the priest. She can no longer count her own life the same as she did before she was a mother, she realizes. Instead of protesting, she quietly aids the man she can safely aid, far from those taking the true risk. That's her place now, for the sake of her child.
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So it's more important for Kadi to be there for this one, very tiny person who will never remember, than for her to be there fore everyone here who will very much remember and whose lives might hang in the balance. But it's put to her this way, and she slowly realizes that, to these people, her life means less than it would to her daughter. She's not just another body here, she's her child's mother. So her footsteps freeze, and she has to think on what that means.
"I..." There's a long, long pause as the others march ahead of her. After they've gone on a way, she turns back to help the priest. She can no longer count her own life the same as she did before she was a mother, she realizes. Instead of protesting, she quietly aids the man she can safely aid, far from those taking the true risk. That's her place now, for the sake of her child.