...There's nothing wrong with that. It's not a weakness to admit that you wanted things to turn out differently.
[Yang's not, really, sure of this. It's far out of his field of experience. He only knew vampires were theoretically possible as of, roughly, last fall.
He sighs, then looks up.]
I don't think this world is very fair. We're learning that the idea of the planet we're sold, since we were young, is a lie -- that things that shouldn't be real, shouldn't be possible, are. It changes lives. Yours more than mine. But, I think...
[He falls quiet again, for a second.]
...It's your life. It's okay to wish it never happened. Now that it has, though, you get to decide what it means for you and who you should be. No one, definitely not us teachers, gets to tell you that.
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[Yang's not, really, sure of this. It's far out of his field of experience. He only knew vampires were theoretically possible as of, roughly, last fall.
He sighs, then looks up.]
I don't think this world is very fair. We're learning that the idea of the planet we're sold, since we were young, is a lie -- that things that shouldn't be real, shouldn't be possible, are. It changes lives. Yours more than mine. But, I think...
[He falls quiet again, for a second.]
...It's your life. It's okay to wish it never happened. Now that it has, though, you get to decide what it means for you and who you should be. No one, definitely not us teachers, gets to tell you that.