"Horrible to want. Horrible to feel victimized. Horrible to make you feel like you're not doing your job."

"No, no, it's good to want things. It's - scary when you feel victimized because I don't know what to do but if you tell me what to do then I'll do that! And if you don't know but you know that I'm trying that's okay. I think. And -

- and obviously I did not do my job at protecting you, for the last year. I tried, but it clearly did not work. It's not - bad - to say obvious facts about the world."

"Yes it is. Bad to think they're obvious. Bad to think that anything is obvious. You said - said the one thing you could definitely do here was protect me and I'm sorry I keep making it not true - "

"Well, I can protect you from people murdering you. No people are gonna murder you at all."

Nod.

"Keep thinking that I want my husband back. But I'm not supposed to think that."

"Well, I think sometimes that I want my wife back. So I guess we are both doing this wrong. That's okay."

Nodnod.

"Never felt safe before. Only - when we were together in the deep plane. Almost wish I hadn't had it, so I wouldn't know it was a way people could be. Wouldn't miss it. More than anything else."

"I wish I could give it back to you.

Maybe once the helmet's off."

Trembly nod.

"Scared there won't be anything left by then. Of me."

"I know that's still a while. But - maybe not too long. My brother would've been a better pharaoh at ten than I am at thirty."

"What if Abadar won't let you go."

"He feels bad about all of this. In, uh, a weird sideways god way, but - he says he has a duty to me and he has not fulfilled it. So - I think he means to. Eventually."

...nodnod. "Okay. 

"Would like that. Would - like to be able to raise children with someone I'm not terrified of. But I understand if that's - not a thing I get to have."

"I want you to have that. I plan to try really really hard."

Nodnod.

"Sorry for wanting inconvenient things," she says quietly.

"I just - wish I knew how to give you them. But I'll try. Okay. I think - I think I messed up less this time than last time because my first thought was to leave you alone and that would've been bad, right."

Nodnod.

"So - progress."

Nodnod. She hugs herself.

"Sorry for taking lots of time. Know you have things to do usually."

"I like spending time with you."

.....nod.

"Sorry I am not more pleasant to be around."

"This is - lots better than when you were in so much pain and so lost and I didn't have any idea why, really."

"M'trying to be. Trying to be honest. I know all the feelings are ugly but I don't know what else to do."

"I think you're doing things just right. It's just that even doing things right is hard."

"Okay.

"Part that wants wants to lie down and be held. Scared that other things will happen, though. Really really really do not want other things to happen."