460 May we meet again...

"Do you regret it? What you did. Repeatedly putting your life in danger for others." Amber asked her softly. 

Alicia pondered the question. 

"When I saw some movies where people threw themselves in front of a person about to be hurt, I always thought they were silly." She let out a laugh. "I guess... it's because I did not understand what it means to love someone and be loved."

She remembered what had happened earlier.

"When I was out here, shut out of the palace, it was Harvey who showed up for me. So you do not need to thank me for it. Because what I did had nothing to do with your feelings for him."

Alicia also remembered the times Paulina would have been hurt because of her, but the girl had willingly sacrificed herself, especially when Alicia was about to be executed for killing Beth, and how she had gotten out of the palace before the doors were closed. "Paulina too. I would have done the same for her."