[ she wouldn't. she tiptoed around the exactness of it with march and kaito, from the work they did at l corp to the sort they did in the library, avoided the horror of elijah's death and what had broken the spirit of the woman they had all followed... how things had fallen, how living beyond their purpose hadn't crossed their minds at the end of the project.

malkuth could never tell them so plainly. there's too much they don't understand, too much they would feel. it's a burden she doesn't want to inflict onto either of her dear, wonderful friends. it's a burden that she can ask vergilius to hear out instead. ]

I do. Because I know better than anyone that "may not" is better than "won't", and I won't succeed if I never step foot on that road in the first place.