audience: emma perkins

[cyclists]

Comments

[foodbin]

I'm not... trying to say that any of them living was a waste. But I am trying to say it shouldn't have been this way.

[She blinks several times, hesitating.]

I thought - this would all be different, if I tried hard enough. But it wasn't.

[unsaid]

[ . . . . there is a hand that will reach out to rest at the top of her head, gentle and grounding]

... such a thing was not your responsibility, Emma.

It does not change that you have made things different, simply from being here. You have saved others by taking action, and learning what you have.