That would be...an amazing adventure if it were true...
[Her eyes light up at this, and most of the fear in her expression seems to melt away, a little.]
Imagine us being on...on Venus! Or Mercury! Or even...a planet we don't know about yet, beyond the sun...!
[A surprisingly girlish giggle from the old woman.]
No one would believe me if I went home right now and told them, I was kidnapped! But I went to another planet, and had an adventure...! And I got home safe. Alive.
[That last word...it's important. Of course. She had to live, after all. She'd almost died and she can't die again so soon!]
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[Her eyes light up at this, and most of the fear in her expression seems to melt away, a little.]
Imagine us being on...on Venus! Or Mercury! Or even...a planet we don't know about yet, beyond the sun...!
[A surprisingly girlish giggle from the old woman.]
No one would believe me if I went home right now and told them, I was kidnapped! But I went to another planet, and had an adventure...! And I got home safe. Alive.
[That last word...it's important. Of course. She had to live, after all. She'd almost died and she can't die again so soon!]