Everybody was trapped. We couldn't do anything. I just kept trying to get out, but...
[She buries her face in her hands.]
I don't want to live my life like I'm in a prison. Like...like my life is on hold. I've been in this limbo ever since...
[Raking back her hair, Korra lifts her head and swallows hard.]
My girlfriend was here. Kaede was hers. We'd just gotten together, back home. And we were here before...but then I went home and came back and didn't remember anything. And so we started over. But like two months later...she went home. And then she came back again, but she didn't remember so we started over again, and then she was gone in another two months.
[She's never just laid it all out there like that. But she's been stuck since losing Asami again, like she's just going through the motions waiting for her to come back. And terrified she never will.]
[She'd been alone in that house in the nightmare, after all.]
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[She buries her face in her hands.]
I don't want to live my life like I'm in a prison. Like...like my life is on hold. I've been in this limbo ever since...
[Raking back her hair, Korra lifts her head and swallows hard.]
My girlfriend was here. Kaede was hers. We'd just gotten together, back home. And we were here before...but then I went home and came back and didn't remember anything. And so we started over. But like two months later...she went home. And then she came back again, but she didn't remember so we started over again, and then she was gone in another two months.
[She's never just laid it all out there like that. But she's been stuck since losing Asami again, like she's just going through the motions waiting for her to come back. And terrified she never will.]
[She'd been alone in that house in the nightmare, after all.]