This isn't a second chance, this is a break. Whatever happens here, whoever I meet, it doesn't make a difference; in the end I still have to go back.
[she's not speaking of the seemingly inexorable call of the Porter here. Lapis refers to the silent promise she'd made to Steven to protect him, the maddening grip of Malachite she would have to return to in order to fulfill that vow.
there was no choice in the matter. Lapis' end had always been returning to her own world...no matter how attached she may grow to some of the people here.]
I build my own prisons now. I know what I can live with.
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[she's not speaking of the seemingly inexorable call of the Porter here. Lapis refers to the silent promise she'd made to Steven to protect him, the maddening grip of Malachite she would have to return to in order to fulfill that vow.
there was no choice in the matter. Lapis' end had always been returning to her own world...no matter how attached she may grow to some of the people here.]
I build my own prisons now. I know what I can live with.