Quick Video Post - In Memorium

[best_thief_ever]

[The video flicks on, as if the computer had been tossed just slightly in the movement of the boat in the waves; the teeny tiny ship is quiet, and it appears the others had left it once they'd gotten to the Thousand Sunny. Lupin appears on screen, donning a green jacket, black shirt, yellow tie; he appears to have stayed behind for just a moment to

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/assumed. Does it actually work? >.>

[history_pirate]

It's nice to remember those who have left us behind, sometimes.

[best_thiefever]

I've always been poorly mannered when it comes to remembering the dead; just no good at admitting their gone, anyway... Even so, I hope she likes flowers. I didn't really know her well enough to figure out her favorite, but...

[history_pirate]

You looked fairly sincere. If she's watching, I'm sure she smiled.

1/2

[best_thiefever]

2/2

[best_thiefever]

Eihihi, I hope so.

[history_pirate]

Who is she, anyway?

[best_thiefever]

Ah, her name was Elen... She'd been sold into a group of assassins since she was a little girl, and wanted her freedom back... so I tried to help her get it.

...But trying is different from succeeding.

[history_pirate]

She died in the process?

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[theebestthief]

.... Yeah. I was fighting her brother's murderer, my old partner. I slipped up, and he fired at me, but she jumped in the way.

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[history_pirate]

It sounds like she got what she wanted, in the end. No one can enslave her now.

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[bestthief_ever]

Yeah... She'd wished for freedom, and in the end, I guess she got that peace she had wanted for so long.

...

... How horrible, I keep wishing she had been more selfish...

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[history_pirate]

Such is the plight of those left behind.

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[best_thiefever]

A lot of us in this world have at least that sad realization in common.

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[history_pirate]

So it has always been. So it will continue to be.