[She looks down at the same time he does, and waits a few moments before pulling her hand away. That gives her enough time to think on what she wants to say, to wrestle with the fact that there's things that she feels that are at conflict with what her mind is telling her is logical.]
I think that even though our methods are different, we're far more alike than I realized.
[It's what she chooses to quietly observe, before slipping into silence. She sees him, she values him for who he is. Even if he chose to remove himself from his situation and she isn't sure she's strong enough to do that, she can respect his choices. Because in the end, she removes herself from the Doctor completely. She does it to save him. And that's exactly like what he's described just now.
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I think that even though our methods are different, we're far more alike than I realized.
[It's what she chooses to quietly observe, before slipping into silence. She sees him, she values him for who he is. Even if he chose to remove himself from his situation and she isn't sure she's strong enough to do that, she can respect his choices. Because in the end, she removes herself from the Doctor completely. She does it to save him. And that's exactly like what he's described just now.
Not that she's going to come out and say so.]