[It's an indirect answer to her own thoughts, but an answer nonetheless. She gets where he's going with it, but she doesn't give him a nod. Only a noise of disapproval.]
I wish you wouldn't think that...
[It was a version of her, down in the tunnels, but...]
I saw it too. People I care about tried to hurt me... those things that looked like them. But I trust that the real ones would never...
[And she'd hoped not so deep down that Damien had grown to trust that she wouldn't, either. Had she been wrong about it?]
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I wish you wouldn't think that...
[It was a version of her, down in the tunnels, but...]
I saw it too. People I care about tried to hurt me... those things that looked like them. But I trust that the real ones would never...
[And she'd hoped not so deep down that Damien had grown to trust that she wouldn't, either. Had she been wrong about it?]