...Honestly, it always weirded me out.

[/cue inappropriate laugh track.]

I mean, I was happy for both of you, but how did the calling you mom thing even start? Even adopted kids take a little time to warm up, I thought.

[I mean, it would seem more threatening if Elda hadn't literally just admitted she's never actually killed someone before. For a split second she looks unimpressed, but it's actually the talk of Sayaka that wipes that look from her face.

"...That fool of a girl never had a mother."]

...She told me about her mother and father a few weeks ago, when I was braiding her hair. Back then, she sounded so wistful for a happy family like mine—a mother like mine—that I didn't haven't the heart to elaborate more.

It must have been love she craved, more than anything.

I know she felt it here; everyone loves her, but you and Alex especially.

[Rin considered Sayaka her friend, but she knew she couldn't help her in the same way she could Shirou. But that was okay, because she knew Sayaka had so many people in her corner. Those two in particular.]

She said things about herself that frustrated me sometimes, but I could tell how much happier she was with you.

[How does she even respond to this?]

She's not gone for good just yet. You can still see her!

[They're the ones who said they'd bring everyone back, right? That means they can't talk like the dead are gone for good.]

I'm not saying you can't, just don't treat it like she's gone for good!

[No.]

Why weren't you?