[That's the most loaded 'I see' that Elizabeth has ever heard, but she can't really blame Thane. She just dropped a whole encyclopedia series on him regarding where she came from and how twisted it was.]
[But she responds with a somewhat loaded pause, so they're about even on that front.]
Comstock was killed. [In all his iterations.] Without him, without me, there is no city. And frankly it's better that way. The people who lived there needed a dose of reality-- they were too comfortable looking down on others, both literally and figuratively. Everything about that place told them it was acceptable, and it had to end.
[That had been the ancillary reasoning behind the erasure of Columbia, at least. It sounded a lot more noble when it was put that way, instead of 'Comstock destroyed my life, so I unraveled his.']
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[But she responds with a somewhat loaded pause, so they're about even on that front.]
Comstock was killed. [In all his iterations.] Without him, without me, there is no city. And frankly it's better that way. The people who lived there needed a dose of reality-- they were too comfortable looking down on others, both literally and figuratively. Everything about that place told them it was acceptable, and it had to end.
[That had been the ancillary reasoning behind the erasure of Columbia, at least. It sounded a lot more noble when it was put that way, instead of 'Comstock destroyed my life, so I unraveled his.']