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[thymeforbones]

Who: Clover, Visitors
When: Day 61, evening and night
Where: Clover

[ After a long and interesting trial, Meri-in-Eliza has decided to DESTRESS ]

[ Namely by trying to climb the trees in her garden. Anyone who wants to join her will find that her bedroom door is wide open, and the curtain separating her "indoor" and "outdoor" areas pushed back. ]

Wah! Why don't humans have claws!

Comments

[terribletwos]

[ There are a LOT of words he doesn't understand in that explanation but that context helps him at least get the gist. An enemy that could take out large numbers at once. People desperate for a solution. Technology seen as a way to make them stronger. ]

Does that mean you volunteered to have that stuff put in you?

[pumako]

I did.

I was a little kid during a Covenant attack. That alone would have been enough to make me do anything to end the war.

[terribletwos]

You weren't afraid what might happen if you couldn't control it or the wrong person did?

[pumako]

Of course I was afraid.

But I knew concretely the consequences of losing. Everyone definitely dead was unacceptable. Me potentially firing my brain was.

[terribletwos]

You were ready to give your life for everyone else.

[pumako]

That's what a soldier does.

And a soldier is a pretty big part of who I am.

[terribletwos]

You don't look like any of the soldiers I've ever seen.

[ Mostly because those are Heartless. ]

It's just sad that people would have to do that.

[pumako]

What kind of soldiers did you see?

That's what war is. A lot of sad and loss and anger. And it was something that lasted at least twenty years. It needed to end.

[terribletwos]

They weren't human.

I think we were in the middle of a war too. I'm not sure how long it's been going on.

A friend of mine also took some big risks to save people.

[ And he's still not sure how that turned out, even before the whole Malice situation. ]

[pumako]

That'd explain it. Not being the same species would do a lot to look different.

Things like that usually takes big risks.

Doesn't always work out, but I hope your friend did better than me.

[terribletwos]

He saved the person he was trying to save at least.

[pumako]

Then at least he should be satisfied.

[terribletwos]

Oh, he would be. That doesn't make it any easier for the rest of us though.

[pumako]

...no, it usually doesn't.