[It's always a good idea, in a place like this, to focus on the here and now.
There's slightly less darkness here than in anything behind or before you, the long road they took to get here and all the corpses they stepped over, the uncertain future awaiting them. Lenka is still clinging to what they can do now tooth and claw, even if it's all tangled up in the future he isn't sure he wants to look at.
Most of them are probably the same, the last of the living. They'll make it through this week.
They'll deal with the rest as it comes.]
Training for a year and then fighting. [he peers at Nine's expression] Did you have a war back home, too? A lot of us do.
[Summer and wars. It's probably nothing more than coincidence, or maybe they expect that child soldiers are more likely to take each other out. He's not sure, but it feels a little different from that, what they've all been doing. What they've been trying to do.]
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There's slightly less darkness here than in anything behind or before you, the long road they took to get here and all the corpses they stepped over, the uncertain future awaiting them. Lenka is still clinging to what they can do now tooth and claw, even if it's all tangled up in the future he isn't sure he wants to look at.
Most of them are probably the same, the last of the living. They'll make it through this week.
They'll deal with the rest as it comes.]
Training for a year and then fighting. [he peers at Nine's expression] Did you have a war back home, too? A lot of us do.
[Summer and wars. It's probably nothing more than coincidence, or maybe they expect that child soldiers are more likely to take each other out. He's not sure, but it feels a little different from that, what they've all been doing. What they've been trying to do.]