Then she pauses, gaze flicking from Bruce to the tatami mat and back again.
There are a lot of things she could say here, about her mother -- about how she was not a mother at all, not really -- about her cousin, about what they made her do.
But she does not. Not yet.
"Yes. Because of the Facility. I do not have parents."
She never had a father, at least. And her mother --
no subject
Then she pauses, gaze flicking from Bruce to the tatami mat and back again.
There are a lot of things she could say here, about her mother -- about how she was not a mother at all, not really -- about her cousin, about what they made her do.
But she does not. Not yet.
"Yes. Because of the Facility. I do not have parents."
She never had a father, at least. And her mother --
Well.
"I do not think friends are the same."