"Now, I won't but what about earlier?" I asked her. "Why let me suffer before?"
If she had expected me to ask that question, she did not show.
I received a smile which was the list of what I thought I would get from her.
Chiara lightly touched my elbow and we parted away from Merelyn and her mother-in-law.
"I want you to understand one thing, Genevive, and that is about the fact that you cannot care for everyone. You will want to, humanity or empathy, you will always want to help the other person, especially when you are at a position to do so. But it would not mean that you waste your resources when you have greater things to fight for."