And no one else faltered? No other feelings changed your decisions or made you take a different path?

[Ordinarily she wouldn't. But a careful hand turns Natalia's face back toward hers.]

People don't want a leader made of stone. They want someone as human and real as they are, who understands what compassion and love and grief really are. ...They do have that, in you.

...I can't help you, with Asch. Sometimes being good friends is the best you can do. But you never know what will happen, with time, even if things hurt right now.