[The words seem totally inadequate. She's taken aback by it all. She can't imagine losing half the people on her homeworld - on any world - in an instant. And from all she's heard, Earth's population is enormous. So many lives lost.]
Your people must have surrendered, after that. I couldn't fault them for it. [She assumes it was a war, because why else would this purple alien do something so horrendous?]
Anyway. You have so many reasons not to go back there. I love my home, that's no secret, but it doesn't mean I can't understand why others might want to avoid theirs. You'll find somewhere else. You and Citizen Smith- [she smiles. It's an easy segue; terrible future wars are not what anyone should be contemplating on their wedding day.] -or no, are you both Citizen Starr now?
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[The words seem totally inadequate. She's taken aback by it all. She can't imagine losing half the people on her homeworld - on any world - in an instant. And from all she's heard, Earth's population is enormous. So many lives lost.]
Your people must have surrendered, after that. I couldn't fault them for it. [She assumes it was a war, because why else would this purple alien do something so horrendous?]
Anyway. You have so many reasons not to go back there. I love my home, that's no secret, but it doesn't mean I can't understand why others might want to avoid theirs. You'll find somewhere else. You and Citizen Smith- [she smiles. It's an easy segue; terrible future wars are not what anyone should be contemplating on their wedding day.] -or no, are you both Citizen Starr now?