“I’ve just found you again.” Tears in Miranda’s eyes. “And what? I’m supposed to believe you feel some miraculous connection to me? That you feel bad about what I went through, what I suffered to get here, and now you want to make amends? Your entire world is built on suffering—the fact that I lived through it changes nothing about that.” “That is the way our world is,” Miranda said. “You can’t change that.” “That’s where you’re wrong.

