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[inhistorybooks]

So, Ray's gone. I'm startin' to wonder if I'm ever gonna get assigned ta someone for more then a couple weeks before they vanish.

... There's somethin' I don't understand. Now, I don't pretend ta know people's reasons for needin' to go back home or anything, but I don't understand why wardens choose to leave permanently without completin' their deal

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private

[inhistorybooks]

All due respect, Sarge? I've got plenty of stuff back home to return to, and I've got a pretty strong sense of duty, too. But what I'm here for's just as important as bein' back on Enterprise doin' my job, and all that is still there, waitin' for me when I'm done. Time won't even pass. But if I go back now and never come back? My daughter'll stay dead. I don't know everyone's deals, but I assume most people who've made deals've made similar ones, because what else would you willingly sign yourself away to be here for?

So sure, I'm just as homesick as the next person, and I'd love to go home tomorrow, but I'm not gonna, because that somewhere better for me'll still be there whether I head back tomorrow or in a week or next year. But if I leave tomorrow, Elizabeth won't be, and that's more important to me then just goin' about my business back home.

private

[inhistorybooks]

Probably. When you've got somethin' ta make a deal for, you'd be surprised what you're willing to do.

private

[inhistorybooks]

No. Should I?

private

[inhistorybooks]

Maybe. But what we're doin' here's important. Giving people a second chance sounds just fine to me.

private

[inhistorybooks]

Then what's his intent matter if that's how you feel?

private

[inhistorybooks]

What would he be getting out of it, if he wasn't just doing the right thing for the sake of being right? Watchin' us scramble and bite each other's heads off and blamin' it all on him must get tirin' after a while.

private

[inhistorybooks]

So?

private

[inhistorybooks]

He didn't force me ta be here, Howie. If I wanted to leave, I would.