[Mercury has the disconcerting, sickening feeling of complete foreignness. There is almost no one in her world who wouldn't know what she means. Yet he seems bright, educated, in control of his faculties...
Worse, it leaves her with the question of what to say, the question of if she should say anything at all. It's the fear stirred up by those worries that is beginning to cause strife. She turns away, to look across the shining surface of the lake.]
It might be better if you were not told.
[She says this almost to herself. A moment passes silently while she finishes deciding. Then:]
There are prophesies forbidding Earth and Moon to meet. I should not be here. However, I do not know how I came here. [This time, her mind adds guiltily.]
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Worse, it leaves her with the question of what to say, the question of if she should say anything at all. It's the fear stirred up by those worries that is beginning to cause strife. She turns away, to look across the shining surface of the lake.]
It might be better if you were not told.
[She says this almost to herself. A moment passes silently while she finishes deciding. Then:]
There are prophesies forbidding Earth and Moon to meet. I should not be here. However, I do not know how I came here. [This time, her mind adds guiltily.]