"Most would choose the rather not. Unfortunately some of us had no choice," she said with a shrug. Most people didn't realize how lucky they were to have choices. They had no idea a choice could even be considered a luxury. Sometimes she resented that.

"I did. Sort of. It's complicated and cost a great deal to me. And ultimately turned out to be for nothing." Yet somehow she didn't actually sound annoyed. In fact she almost sounded...amused? Amused was the word for it. There was no denying that there was a certain amount of irony in her heroic sacrifice really being for nothing in the end. "Most humans eventually wrote it off as a shared hallucination. That was probably better for their simple psyches." She paused for a second. "No offense."