Obligation

[Titania]

"Hello again."

Hello.

"I'm glad you're free, you know."

As am I.

"You sure did talk to a lot of people, while you were there, didn't you?"

I didn't have much else to do to ensure I stayed alive.

"You kept telling them to make their own choices, to be their own people..."

It is the point, is it not?

"Perhaps it is. But if that's so... why don't you?"

...?

"It is my dream you have dedicated yourself to fulfilling, isn't it?"

Yes.

"It is my purpose that you have chosen. My desire that you pursue so doggedly that you've forgotten how to even worry for your own life."

Yes.

"...Then why do you tell them to make their own choices, Aaliyah? If you can't even follow your own advice?"

...

"Don't worry. I understand. You are a martyr to your core."

...Ah...

"You do it because you feel it is the only way to give them the chance to do what you cannot."

...

"You have shackled yourself to my dream, so thoroughly made it your own, that you do not even have one yourself, do you?"

...

"You would be lost without me."

Yes.

"I am sorry, for imposing such upon you. But you are doing a good thing."

I know.

"Thank you, Aaliyah."

The girl.

"...What about her?"

...We have to save her. I have to save her.

"They'll all be saved, in time. You know this."

You don't understand.

"...?"

Please.

"...very well. You would not have remembered me refusing you, anyways, when you had awoken. Do as you like. Just do not forget your purpose."

I could never.

"Thank you, Aaliyah."

Of course.

"Now, isn't it time for you to wake up?"