[It's not exactly a novel trait for her even if she had her memories intact; just something she's overcome before and will have to overcome again. But Vira's words touch her anyway - it's easier to accept, but she feels like she understands a little of Vira. They're similar in many ways, aren't they? And she understands, that desire despite herself to protect those she's become unaccountably attached to. Vira is one of those people.

. . . Or maybe it's simply because she asked. Perhaps that's all she's ever demanded.]

I have spent some time this evening, considering whether I ought to kill them. I have nothing but my own suspicions, but it troubles me greatly, to think that should I refuse to act on them, it may cost someone else a life.

However, the conclusion I came to is - it would be premature. It would not help matters, as they are now, to simply add another body to investigate.