[ this... explains so much. and while the honesty is appreciated - she's been trying to help claude... khalid reach this point for weeks now - it also kind of hurts to hear it. ]

I wish you didn't have to go so far.

[ to leave his family and country to escape the attempts on his life. to change his name and everything about him in order to fit in with a society that would otherwise hate him, just because he's from the "wrong" country. maybe he did do it all in order to make a better life for himself, and that's fair, but... ]

I don't think you should have to bury who are you so deep inside like that. [ it's sad, she thinks. and it must have been lonely, too. ] Especially not for people who could never really appreciate you.

But it's... really admirable to come out of it with a dream like that. Not everyone could.