Briefly she closes her eyes and exhales softly. Give me strength. The man is inadvertently proving her point.
"What guarantee do you have that you would even be able to take that knowledge back with you? And anyway, whether you could or not—until you returned, how could you not obsess over that knowledge, let it consume every waking moment?" Torture you, she almost says, but realizes that would be unfair, and probably would do exactly what she's describing, if he's smart enough—and he probably is—to read between the lines. "And if you returned and forgot it all, anything I said would be for nothing."
closed thread - Poe Dameron
Briefly she closes her eyes and exhales softly. Give me strength. The man is inadvertently proving her point.
"What guarantee do you have that you would even be able to take that knowledge back with you? And anyway, whether you could or not—until you returned, how could you not obsess over that knowledge, let it consume every waking moment?" Torture you, she almost says, but realizes that would be unfair, and probably would do exactly what she's describing, if he's smart enough—and he probably is—to read between the lines. "And if you returned and forgot it all, anything I said would be for nothing."