[ It's said lightly, though his expression is somber and a little sad. It's strange to be thinking about CT now. The captain's long gone and the last time he and Sharkface spoke had been tense, laden with grief. Sharkface had been too injured to follow and so the captain had gone off alone, into the desert, and he'd died that way. The mission had been passed onto him, the last man standing. There's clarity in that, the way all paths have been sundered except for that one. But before that, before CT had given the order, he'd believed in other people. Saw good in them even when Ephemera - and he'd been Ephemera then - hadn't.
Gene reminds him a little of CT, or at least how CT used to be, before everything went to hell. Kind despite everything, and hoping that the rest of the universe could be kind as well. It can't possibly last, but there's a part of him that wants it to. ]
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You say that now.
[ It's said lightly, though his expression is somber and a little sad. It's strange to be thinking about CT now. The captain's long gone and the last time he and Sharkface spoke had been tense, laden with grief. Sharkface had been too injured to follow and so the captain had gone off alone, into the desert, and he'd died that way. The mission had been passed onto him, the last man standing. There's clarity in that, the way all paths have been sundered except for that one. But before that, before CT had given the order, he'd believed in other people. Saw good in them even when Ephemera - and he'd been Ephemera then - hadn't.
Gene reminds him a little of CT, or at least how CT used to be, before everything went to hell. Kind despite everything, and hoping that the rest of the universe could be kind as well. It can't possibly last, but there's a part of him that wants it to. ]
Hnn. One soldier to another.