I'll consider it.

[Because honestly? Her first instinct is to reject it, on the basis that he couldn't give her the things she truly wanted. That chip on her shoulder has been sitting there for ten thousand years, and the ones who she knows could remove it are long since dead.]

[But that's going to convince him even more that it's all one big act of atonement.]

There is another difference between us, and it's the difference that we're facing. Living in a world of regrets — and more than that, regrets for choices that were never yours to make — is allowing your present to be ruled by the past.

I'm not taking risks for the sake of taking them. Because my goal is to keep moving forward — or, if there's no way forward for me, to open a path for someone else.

Honestly, it's what matters most to me.

[Because it's the one piece of my father's legacy that I can never lose.]

[She finishes the second glass, just about as quickly as she started it.]

That being said, if you want to make me happy... I wouldn't say no to something sparkly. [Okay, maybe this alcohol is having a little effect on her.]