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Jul. 30th, 2008 06:28 pm"He wanted to say he's sorry."
"What?"
"He came all the way out here, risked his health and endangered his life so he could stand beside a Narn in neutral territory and apologize for all the things the Centauri have done to your people. For all the things his family did. He said, 'We're wrong. The hatred between our people can never end until someone is willing to say I'm sorry, and try to find a way to make things right again; to atone for our actions.' He said it was the only choice he'd ever made in his life, and now that seems to have been taken away from him."
"I had ... I had no idea..."
"No, I'm sure you didn't. Maybe that's the biggest tragedy of the whole damn story."
Dr. Franklin and Ambassador G'Kar, The Coming Of Shadows
"What?"
"He came all the way out here, risked his health and endangered his life so he could stand beside a Narn in neutral territory and apologize for all the things the Centauri have done to your people. For all the things his family did. He said, 'We're wrong. The hatred between our people can never end until someone is willing to say I'm sorry, and try to find a way to make things right again; to atone for our actions.' He said it was the only choice he'd ever made in his life, and now that seems to have been taken away from him."
"I had ... I had no idea..."
"No, I'm sure you didn't. Maybe that's the biggest tragedy of the whole damn story."
Dr. Franklin and Ambassador G'Kar, The Coming Of Shadows