[ Where does she even start? There's so much. Even assuming Nate has some context, even with him having met nearly all of the players involved, knowing many of them well, it's still so much. A long, complicated, heartbreaking story, and one she's never even tried to tell anyone.

It's not a happy story, either, or one that paints Lucretia in a flattering light even when she's the one telling it. But she has to tell him. They've only just met, but with Love's influence on her, she can't just keep this bottled up. She needs to share it with him, whatever his reaction may be. ]

We'd made a decision. And it was - [ She shakes her head. ] It was the wrong one. We let something out into the world, something dangerous. People got hurt. People died, thousands upon thousands of them, and there was nothing we could do.

It was killing them. The others. I could see it in their voices, hear it when they spoke. It haunted all of us. We'd done this, and maybe we...well, we'd had to do something.

And then Lup disappeared.

She couldn't die, of course. Shouldn't have been able to, anyway, but...she was just...gone. We looked and looked, Taako and Barry most of all, tirelessly, but if things had been bad before? If we'd been hurting, suffering, before then? [ She shakes her head again. ] It was too much. I couldn't just stand by. I couldn't just watch them in such pain.

So I decided to fix it.