I know... [ Susato looks straight ahead, admiring the passing scenery despite the heavy turn this conversation has taken. ] I know that you regret it, and I don't wish to hold it against you.

...If I could tear the page from our journals, render the dream unseen, and spare us both the dramatics, I would.

[ Then again, that probably wouldn't solve anything, and it isn't her nature to run from such things. It doesn't feel right, but she'll let the thought linger in the air until she adds to it, as if to clarify: ]

I just don't want one bad dream to colour our interactions forever.