We could, yes. I have no opposition for that. Did you want to sit on the edge of the roof? You needn't worry about falling.
[They can dangle their legs off the edge of the high-up building and it's totally fine.
She has to say that, because thinking about what Adeline says otherwise... hits. And it hurts.] I... I work in the Research Hall, you may yet be able to meet up with me, but it won't... be like it is now. Like it was before. You'll be a patient.
[And I'll help them destroy you, and all the other patients, and the city, and then I won't be able to live with myself anymore.
Maria doesn't say it out loud.] It's less... idyllic, certainly. It will be getting back to work when you awaken, so perhaps we'll consider this some time off.
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[They can dangle their legs off the edge of the high-up building and it's totally fine.
She has to say that, because thinking about what Adeline says otherwise... hits. And it hurts.] I... I work in the Research Hall, you may yet be able to meet up with me, but it won't... be like it is now. Like it was before. You'll be a patient.
[And I'll help them destroy you, and all the other patients, and the city, and then I won't be able to live with myself anymore.
Maria doesn't say it out loud.] It's less... idyllic, certainly. It will be getting back to work when you awaken, so perhaps we'll consider this some time off.
[Stay here. Stay here stay here-
Wake up wake up wake up, Maria.]