Queen Rose Benjamin:
All those times you sat by her bedside. She needed you; she's never needed me, not the same way.
King Silas Benjamin:
Every child longs for its mother.
Queen Rose Benjamin:
To sit and watch her slip away?... I didn't have it then, I don't have it now; it, it...
King Silas Benjamin:
I can save them - save them all - Michelle, Jack... Shiloh. A diseased limb needs to be severed, so that the body may heal itself.
Queen Rose Benjamin:
Then cut.
King Silas Benjamin:
The price will be steep - for you, more than most. One sibling sacrificed, to save two.
Queen Rose Benjamin:
For them, cut; then cut again. You cut until there is nothing left but my children, alive.
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