MIA
Hypothetical.
What if we build toward going public for months and then you say you can't do it?
MIRA
Then I don't jump.
MIA
Even after all that work?
MIRA
Especially then.
If “no” only counts before it's inconvenient, it was never autonomy.
MIA
And you wouldn't owe me?
MIRA
Gratitude, yes.
Ownership of the outcome, no.
MIA
Good.
I needed to hear you say it.
MIRA
I needed to know you meant it.