[The whole world? Ethlyn draws in a sharp breath just thinking of the scope of it. She knows that her homeland was ravaged for hundreds of years by the Loptrian Empire, resulting in thousands and thousands of deaths. Even so, those atrocities were confined to Jugdral's own shores.]
How terrible. [She's about to say that she can't even picture something like that, but that would be a terribly insensitive thing to someone who doesn't have to use his imagination to know what it looks like.] No wonder you feel the way you do.
[She's doing her best not to sound pitying; she understands pride too well. But it's hard not to feel something for a person who seems so open and friendly, having grown up in utter deprivation.]
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How terrible. [She's about to say that she can't even picture something like that, but that would be a terribly insensitive thing to someone who doesn't have to use his imagination to know what it looks like.] No wonder you feel the way you do.
[She's doing her best not to sound pitying; she understands pride too well. But it's hard not to feel something for a person who seems so open and friendly, having grown up in utter deprivation.]