Cho just continues to hold very still on the branch. There's a chance that the ones that have scattered will come back, and the ones that are frozen inside the container, she wants them to be comfortable again before she takes them. Or, if they're going to run away, too, she wants them to have the chance. They're little, and getting their hearts beating too quickly is probably not good for them. So she can wait a bit.
She's curious about the laugh, though. She laughed, when Ben asked her about her family, but... well, she knows why she laughed. It doesn't make sense that he would. Until he starts explaining. Then it makes far too much sense. "I'm so sorry," she says, and while she's noticed that a lot of people who say those words tend to sound like what they really mean is they're sorry they opened up this can of worms and now have to deal with the consequences, Cho really does mean that she's sorry he was hurt. "I had no idea. I didn't mean to... offend." Probably obvious. Why would she? Still, she feels like she wants it said out loud, on the record, even though Ben probably wasn't thinking it to begin with.
Cho wishes desperately that her mind could present her with some way this might have been a good thing, some angle to turn it from a horror to a kindness. But to buy babies, to purchase children only to mistreat them. It's gruesome. She's seen poverty, though has been blessed to never have it touch her own life. She knows the lengths people will go to to survive. "I can't imagine that. How desperate a mother must be to sell her baby, how small it must make you feel, to have no other way out. Maybe-- Maybe they hoped they were giving you a better life? Maybe they thought... someone with enough money, that he'd take care of you." Her eyes look almost hopeful - she wants to believe it. That's not enough to make it so, though. "I'm sure that's not much comfort... I'm sorry. I shouldn't speculate. It's none of my business."
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She's curious about the laugh, though. She laughed, when Ben asked her about her family, but... well, she knows why she laughed. It doesn't make sense that he would. Until he starts explaining. Then it makes far too much sense. "I'm so sorry," she says, and while she's noticed that a lot of people who say those words tend to sound like what they really mean is they're sorry they opened up this can of worms and now have to deal with the consequences, Cho really does mean that she's sorry he was hurt. "I had no idea. I didn't mean to... offend." Probably obvious. Why would she? Still, she feels like she wants it said out loud, on the record, even though Ben probably wasn't thinking it to begin with.
Cho wishes desperately that her mind could present her with some way this might have been a good thing, some angle to turn it from a horror to a kindness. But to buy babies, to purchase children only to mistreat them. It's gruesome. She's seen poverty, though has been blessed to never have it touch her own life. She knows the lengths people will go to to survive. "I can't imagine that. How desperate a mother must be to sell her baby, how small it must make you feel, to have no other way out. Maybe-- Maybe they hoped they were giving you a better life? Maybe they thought... someone with enough money, that he'd take care of you." Her eyes look almost hopeful - she wants to believe it. That's not enough to make it so, though. "I'm sure that's not much comfort... I'm sorry. I shouldn't speculate. It's none of my business."