It isn't your place to apologise for something that was out of your control.
[ If anyone should be apologising here, it was their captors. But Barnaby isn't naive - he knows that there's no way any of them are going to get an apology from people like that. So there's no point in saying it, even if he hopes that she won't take the burden upon herself, or think that it's her fault. ]
They may be playing games with us, but it isn't something that we can predict. We only know that, based on their past behaviour, they will continue to act in this way, not what they will do. How were you to know that they may try and do something like that?
There is nothing anyone could have done to prevent this.
[ Which makes him feel all the more powerless, but he doesn't say as much. ]
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Date: 2013-10-23 11:02 am (UTC)[ If anyone should be apologising here, it was their captors. But Barnaby isn't naive - he knows that there's no way any of them are going to get an apology from people like that. So there's no point in saying it, even if he hopes that she won't take the burden upon herself, or think that it's her fault. ]
They may be playing games with us, but it isn't something that we can predict. We only know that, based on their past behaviour, they will continue to act in this way, not what they will do. How were you to know that they may try and do something like that?
There is nothing anyone could have done to prevent this.
[ Which makes him feel all the more powerless, but he doesn't say as much. ]