- My dear sister and liege wouldn't have wanted to stay by me in death, you damn fool - She wasn't the type to choose her own death, no matter what happened. And she never would have managed to keep her mouth shut about her real identity, even if I'd managed to get her fake ones - Well, not as long as I was there to clean up her messes and keep up her identity as the Queen, anyway.
And as for the idea of running off to a far off land -
[Len then sank to his knees, tears coming out of his eyes, and looked down at the floor.]
...We used to make up stories, Michelle and I. We'd sit under the trees and look up at the sky and make up stories about Michelle being a princess and I being a prince, and running off to far off lands and having adventures...
[He wiped his eyes, then.]
- And then, all of a sudden, some people in livery came along, and bang, Michelle of the Green Moutain Village was gone, and Princess Michelle was there in her place. And then, a prince on a white horse did come along, but he wasn't me, don't you see?
[Len raised his eyes, then, and started to speak in a monotone.]
...I could have...run away with her anyway, you know. I'd even made some plans of getting us both away to the New Continent.
- But then, Mila - Rillanne would have been all alone. And I...I...
Re: The continuation of Path 3
- My dear sister and liege wouldn't have wanted to stay by me in death, you damn fool - She wasn't the type to choose her own death, no matter what happened. And she never would have managed to keep her mouth shut about her real identity, even if I'd managed to get her fake ones - Well, not as long as I was there to clean up her messes and keep up her identity as the Queen, anyway.
And as for the idea of running off to a far off land -
[Len then sank to his knees, tears coming out of his eyes, and looked down at the floor.]
...We used to make up stories, Michelle and I. We'd sit under the trees and look up at the sky and make up stories about Michelle being a princess and I being a prince, and running off to far off lands and having adventures...
[He wiped his eyes, then.]
- And then, all of a sudden, some people in livery came along, and bang, Michelle of the Green Moutain Village was gone, and Princess Michelle was there in her place. And then, a prince on a white horse did come along, but he wasn't me, don't you see?
[Len raised his eyes, then, and started to speak in a monotone.]
...I could have...run away with her anyway, you know. I'd even made some plans of getting us both away to the New Continent.
- But then, Mila - Rillanne would have been all alone. And I...I...