[Even if it's making Vira sad, it sounds good to her. She is probably more understanding of the notion of devoting your whole heart to one single person than most people here would be, being a romantic, a religious fanatic, and in general extremely extra. But she still can't truly support Vira in her desire to be alone with one person who doesn't even seem to want that from her.

She wouldn't try to argue Vira out of how she feels, even though maybe any reasonable person would, but she feels a little glad all the same.]

. . . I have been learning that happiness is not what I thought it was.

I expected it would only exist in grand moments, experiences of ecstasy. The way it was when I first looked upon the Body; the way it would be when I finally fulfilled my purpose and restored my House.

But I don't necessarily think anymore that being sustained and being happy are the same thing. I find happiness exists more in the smaller moments. Watching you bully Sasazuka into going to the spa, or going - going grocery shopping with Sheila, learning someone's name for the first time, seeing the ocean. [A little twinge of a bittersweet emotion.] Flowers and circuses, perhaps. But mainly company.

It would make me sad, to think you felt you had to give those things up in order to be with Katalina.