Tragedy

[soylent_genki]

Shiro...Kira...they both...why?  How could we lose two people on one mission?  It's not fair!  They were two of the kindest people in the whole EDF!  And not only that, but this mission was so...so STUPID!  First the Apsalus firing on us during a truce, then Major Ingram ordering them to shoot down the medical shuttle.  Why?  Why that?  And why did

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[grandtheftmecha]

Kira and Shiro... and then all of that!? I- Damn it... what can I even say...

[soylent_genki]

Lieutenant...ma'am, how do you deal with it when something like this happens? What does a soldier do when her friends die?

[grandtheftmecha]

Kusuha... when a soldiers friend-when my friends died... I buried my sadness. I try not to think about it or feel about it right then and there, cuz otherwise I'd never be able to keep fighting.

Honestly, there's... still a lot I'm holding in from the fighting I saw before coming here...

[soylent_genki]

I'm just not strong enough to hold sadness in. Here I am crying like a little girl like I did...like I did to Shiro after the Aidoneus mission. If I'd been stronger, maybe I could have saved them. Or maybe at least this wouldn't be affecting me so much.

[Private, filtered to Kusuha]

[grandtheftmecha]

Kusuha don't... don't ever think that you aren't strong just because you're sad. People like me... it's gonna be a lot harder for us to move on once the fighting's over, after putting everything away for so long.

If anything... I'm weak for hiding from it like that.

[soylent_genki]

You're anything but weak, Lieutenant. Maybe we're just different in how we handle things.

But I still should have been able to protect them. Protecting people I care about is the whole reason I agreed to sign on in the first place. And for all I try, for all you try to help me get better, I still couldn't.

[grandtheftmecha]

...er, sorry if I was getting a little out of it... you've known both of them longer than I have. It's... a bit of all this, and some private stuff.

And the way I see it, you've done some good already. I mean, hell, you were at Aidoneus right? As much as we've done to others in all these battles, we've probably protected even more people than we've hurt. If it isn't enough... well, you either give up, or you get stronger and do what you can...