[Heart hurting, the conversation is becoming all too much. Swallowing thickly she can't hold back the way her vision becomes blurry, or how she begins to tremble despite the the ridiculous heat. Lips quivering, she squeezes her eyes shut tight while doing all she can to hold back a sob.]
But I failed at everything.
[Fingers curling inward as her pain practically radiates outward, they clasp onto the hands that hold her own.]
I didn't accomplish one single thing. [The steady stream of tears that falls down her cheeks breaks like a river and there's no preventing it now.] I wanted peace. [Her voice breaks. She had wanted a peaceful world of coexistence, but things are more tumultuous than ever.] I wanted to make a difference and to protect the people I care about. I wanted to stop him.
[Why? Why had everything gone so wrong. What is it she had done wrong? Every day she asks herself that, wracking her brain to figure out what she could have done to change things. Why it is everything fell apart.]