[She's quiet for a moment, eyes trailing down to her knees. As impersonal as she's always tried to be with him, it feels like he just reached inside and prodded at her heart. But if it's the hard truth he's going to be spouting, she might as well correct it.]
You weren't an experiment. I slept with you because I was alone, and I was sad, and I wanted to forget. [The past tense is useless; all those things are still true. She was adamant about keeping her memories, back on the burnt-out husk of Gallifrey, but sometimes she wonders if she wouldn't change that call, now that she knows what it's like to go on when everything you've ever known is over.]
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You weren't an experiment. I slept with you because I was alone, and I was sad, and I wanted to forget. [The past tense is useless; all those things are still true. She was adamant about keeping her memories, back on the burnt-out husk of Gallifrey, but sometimes she wonders if she wouldn't change that call, now that she knows what it's like to go on when everything you've ever known is over.]