( picking up the thread of his thought, petra says, )
I was not kindly disposed to your declaration of feelings, in the woods, in that dream. But when I knew myself to be dreaming, a thing that felt very much like your dreamβ
( an island where mages could live quiet, simple lives and raise children who would never be taken to circles, )
I knew it in how polite you were to me. How perfectly correct you were, how there was no fault that I could object to in your conversation or your behaviour toward me, and how dissatisfied I nevertheless found myself with both. Even as a stranger to you here at the beginning, you did not hold me at such remove. I saw you look at Julius the way I have grown accustomed to seeing you look back at me when I look toward you, and I, ( carefully, ) did not dislike it. I only wished to have a place in it.
( she had told him she loved him, in that dream. in front of julius and in concert with him, now, she asserts that she had meant it. )
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I was not kindly disposed to your declaration of feelings, in the woods, in that dream. But when I knew myself to be dreaming, a thing that felt very much like your dreamβ
( an island where mages could live quiet, simple lives and raise children who would never be taken to circles, )
I knew it in how polite you were to me. How perfectly correct you were, how there was no fault that I could object to in your conversation or your behaviour toward me, and how dissatisfied I nevertheless found myself with both. Even as a stranger to you here at the beginning, you did not hold me at such remove. I saw you look at Julius the way I have grown accustomed to seeing you look back at me when I look toward you, and I, ( carefully, ) did not dislike it. I only wished to have a place in it.
( she had told him she loved him, in that dream. in front of julius and in concert with him, now, she asserts that she had meant it. )