"I deal with it because we don't have a choice," she snaps, fingers tightening into white-knuckled fists as she glares at her. Willow is compassionate at heart, but she is also defensive, and this topic is one she's dealt with time and time again.
"You know what happens when you don't deal? More people die. More people get hurt-- you get hurt worse. I tore someone's skin off of his body and flayed him alive because I couldn't handle seeing the person I loved most die in my arms.
"If you want to feel what that's like, what it is to live with that afterward, be my guest. I know it's not fair. I know! But it being unfair doesn't change anything. It doesn't go away, Andrea, it's never going to."
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"I deal with it because we don't have a choice," she snaps, fingers tightening into white-knuckled fists as she glares at her. Willow is compassionate at heart, but she is also defensive, and this topic is one she's dealt with time and time again.
"You know what happens when you don't deal? More people die. More people get hurt-- you get hurt worse. I tore someone's skin off of his body and flayed him alive because I couldn't handle seeing the person I loved most die in my arms.
"If you want to feel what that's like, what it is to live with that afterward, be my guest. I know it's not fair. I know! But it being unfair doesn't change anything. It doesn't go away, Andrea, it's never going to."