Galaxy Quest campfire - Tuesday evening - 7/14

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After the disastrous discussion she'd had with Arthur at the reserves, Fiona had made her way back to her cabin and tried to relax a bit with a book. Books, however, had brought up the discussion in her mind and after slicing off half of her bedsheet with one of the pages, she'd decided that a fire might be the way to go

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[saikyou_no]

"Fiona," Kenshin said, as he wandered by. "...Are you okay?"

He noticed these things, even if he wasn't as good as he would be as an adult.

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The glare she gave him could have sliced something all on it's own if she hadn't immediately dampened it and grumbled at the fire.

"Would you turn down your choice of military texts and the assistance of someone who's read them and been made to analyze them since she was five years old?"

...that's a 'no', Kenshin.

[saikyou_no]

Blink.

"No."

Shishou would kill him.

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"Then Arthur's an idiot," was her answer to that as she crossed her arms and laid them on her knees to stare at the fire.

"A stubborn, foolish, suicidal, chauvinist idiot."

[saikyou_no]

"What happened?" Kenshin asked.

Arthur hadn't struck him as stupid.

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"You would have to ask him," as Fiona wasn't particularly helpful when flooded with rage, "but from what I understand, the veritable library of books I have on the subject and my own knowledge are 'unnecessary'."

[saikyou_no]

"I... Maybe you could try again?" he asked.

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"And humiliate myself again?" she snapped, turning her head to stare at him incredulously.

"No. He doesn't respect me or what expertise I have, which means he won't listen and I've done enough banging on brick walls that I'm not trying again."

She looked as if she was going to turn to the fire once more, perhaps settle in silence, before the torrent started again.

"I don't know why. I defer to him when it comes to the sword. I know he has more experience. I know everyone has more experience and I want to get better so I listen. But when it comes to this, he won't do me the same courtesy. It's infuriating."

[saikyou_no]

"Is there anything else you can do then?" he asked.

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She breathed out, slowly.

"Not really. While I disagree with his ideas, a divided force is weakest and I'd cause more harm trying to make people listen than anything else.

"I guess I just get to call him an idiot. Quietly. To myself."

And Leto, when he wasn't a tree. She'd keep that to Greek, though.

[saikyou_no]

"If he ignores advice, and someone gets hurt or killed as a result..." Kenshin trails off, but his tone is serious.

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"You can't save everyone," was all she had for that, though if he looked at her face, he'd see that death was very real to her, and something she took very seriously.

[saikyou_no]

"No," he agreed shortly. "You can't."

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Her smile was grim as she held out a stick for marshmallows for him.

"It's part of being the leader, from what I've read. Getting people killed.

"And warnings from goddesses, well, ignoring them usually doesn't help but what can you do?"

[saikyou_no]

"A good leader should do everything he can to make sure he doesn't get people killed," Kenshin replied. He took a stick, and started roasting a marshmallow.

They were growing on him.

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"I've never led anything but a shopping trip," she admitted, "but that was what I thought too."

She closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around herself.

"I'm going to hope very very hard that he succeeds anyway."