[ The effects of time and space slide off her like water - as usual. No, the harm comes in the lost, the abandoned, the lives that are now no more than graves at the bottom of the ocean - disappointing outcome, he calls it. She struggles to separate the fact of it from his typical clinical outlook, because he isn't wrong. Not really.
Her head bows a little, if only briefly. Those little sparks of humanity she's seen in Connor over the past months seem so far away now. ]
I appreciate your concern, but I'm fine. [ She always survives, even if she doesn't win, even if she's spat out - ] I thought you would need to talk. That's all.
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[ The effects of time and space slide off her like water - as usual. No, the harm comes in the lost, the abandoned, the lives that are now no more than graves at the bottom of the ocean - disappointing outcome, he calls it. She struggles to separate the fact of it from his typical clinical outlook, because he isn't wrong. Not really.
Her head bows a little, if only briefly. Those little sparks of humanity she's seen in Connor over the past months seem so far away now. ]
I appreciate your concern, but I'm fine. [ She always survives, even if she doesn't win, even if she's spat out - ] I thought you would need to talk. That's all.
[ Feels a bit foolish now, in retrospect. ]