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[Huh, that's not what he was expecting.]
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
uh, let me see if i can quote him
"no one helped us, why should we help them?"
"i'm not here to cut trees down for orphans"
"i never said i was a saint"
"i didn't get these people killed and i'm not going to wander around new amsterdam cleaning up after them"
i've got more if you want
"no one helped us, why should we help them?"
"i'm not here to cut trees down for orphans"
"i never said i was a saint"
"i didn't get these people killed and i'm not going to wander around new amsterdam cleaning up after them"
i've got more if you want
[...Weird. Lance doesn't know Sam super well, and although they get along intermittently it's not like they're really friends. But something still seems off about this to him, not that he thinks Kyna is lying or anything, but just that his intuition is going off that there's something underlying here.
Then again he really is very tired, so he may be totally wrong.]
That's really blatantly callous; he just said that to you? Was it just in response to the idea of helping out in general, or something more specific?
Then again he really is very tired, so he may be totally wrong.]
That's really blatantly callous; he just said that to you? Was it just in response to the idea of helping out in general, or something more specific?
You're probably right; he probably is still messed up from the Aerie, and isn't willing to talk about it. I think that's the case for a lot of people, and the idea of trying to figure out how to deal with all of that while helping other people go through it is overwhelming to them.
Not that that excuses him being a jerk to you, but if I had to guess I think he was being purposefully blunt and combative to try to scare you off so he could avoid talking about the real issue.
[And maybe he's giving Sam too much benefit of the doubt here, but he's just very generally worried about Displaced--and the native citizens returning, too--feeling forced into helping with this crisis when they're victims of it themselves. It's a difficult position to be in.]
Not that that excuses him being a jerk to you, but if I had to guess I think he was being purposefully blunt and combative to try to scare you off so he could avoid talking about the real issue.
[And maybe he's giving Sam too much benefit of the doubt here, but he's just very generally worried about Displaced--and the native citizens returning, too--feeling forced into helping with this crisis when they're victims of it themselves. It's a difficult position to be in.]
He might not, but do you want this to be the thing that breaks up your friendship? After everything that just happened?
I'm not saying forgive him immediately or anything; we're all under a lot of stress and you have every right to be mad. Just that if I had to guess I'd say he probably didn't really mean any of it, if that makes a difference.
I'm not saying forgive him immediately or anything; we're all under a lot of stress and you have every right to be mad. Just that if I had to guess I'd say he probably didn't really mean any of it, if that makes a difference.
Yeah. This whole thing is really difficult.
But at least we're here, right?
But at least we're here, right?
We're okay.
There are things we should talk about, but they can wait.
There are things we should talk about, but they can wait.
Like you could reach high enough to knock me out.
If it makes you feel any better, I was almost exactly the same height you are until I was like eighteen.
Only if it was seventeen-year-old-or-older me.
Otherwise you'd get to just stare eye to eye.
Otherwise you'd get to just stare eye to eye.
Never said I wasn't!
[ That, to her retreating back. She's the epitome of hate to see her leave, love to watch her go--except it's mostly the first half of that right now, along with the vague sensation that he might've screwed something up past the point of fixing.
(How the hell did it even get to this point? She could've taken no for an answer any time--it feels to him like it's her fault, even though some small part of him knows nah, Drake, you fucked up.)
He's up there for a while after, staring out at the overgrown city and stewing about things he doesn't actually want to think about in any real detail. It'll go the same way anything goes, he's figuring. Avoid her for a while, pretend everything's fine when they cross paths again, and it either will be or it won't.
It's fine. That's just how things go.
Weird how it feels this bad, though. ]
[ That, to her retreating back. She's the epitome of hate to see her leave, love to watch her go--except it's mostly the first half of that right now, along with the vague sensation that he might've screwed something up past the point of fixing.
(How the hell did it even get to this point? She could've taken no for an answer any time--it feels to him like it's her fault, even though some small part of him knows nah, Drake, you fucked up.)
He's up there for a while after, staring out at the overgrown city and stewing about things he doesn't actually want to think about in any real detail. It'll go the same way anything goes, he's figuring. Avoid her for a while, pretend everything's fine when they cross paths again, and it either will be or it won't.
It's fine. That's just how things go.
Weird how it feels this bad, though. ]
I'm okay, just trying to stay busy. Since operation moonbase alpha's been put on hold and the network is a disaster, I really only have the relief efforts to focus on, so.
[So that's what he's doing.]
I could ask the same thing of you, though. How are you doing really? And aside from talking to Sam, what's been going on?
[So that's what he's doing.]
I could ask the same thing of you, though. How are you doing really? And aside from talking to Sam, what's been going on?
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