there's a moment where she hesitates, struggling with that. she can't. let that hope go out, she can't, because there's only so many straws she can stack up, so:]
Nor mine. But I don't want to let the cult win. If nothing else, we must preserve for that.
Someone once told me that the most important thing in life is to protect those you love, but failing that, vengeance is a decent second goal. [and this was delilah so you should listen to her words of wisdom.]
[a bit wistful. she does have a nasty temper, wanting to lash out at anyone who hurts her, but after it ebbs she always feels like she lost a part of herself.]
But not letting them have their victory at out expense, even if we must claw and drag our way to the end bleeding, sounds right to me.
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[she says, quietly. but - she gets it. she doesn't really have anything else to say to that, nothing that she can put into words.]
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[she wishes she could feel that way.]
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she did
there's a moment where she hesitates, struggling with that. she can't. let that hope go out, she can't, because there's only so many straws she can stack up, so:]
Yes.
[firmly. stubbornly.]
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Maybe, then. I wish we could hope for more for them than either a sudden departure or a brief farewell.
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I wish we could too. [she rubs at her face.] Gods, there's really nothing to be done about it. We just keep marching until we die.
This isn't exactly how I wanted to spend the rest of my life.
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Someone once told me that the most important thing in life is to protect those you love, but failing that, vengeance is a decent second goal. [and this was delilah so you should listen to her words of wisdom.]
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Hah. Guess that's not a bad outlook. [...] I wouldn't say revenge even feels all that good, but you've got to do what you've got to do, sometimes.
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[a bit wistful. she does have a nasty temper, wanting to lash out at anyone who hurts her, but after it ebbs she always feels like she lost a part of herself.]
But not letting them have their victory at out expense, even if we must claw and drag our way to the end bleeding, sounds right to me.