Destruction snorts. "Just as long as it isn't an expression of your -- oh, let's see. How about -- inner frozen wasteland? That's nice and trochaic." Beat. "There's a reason I stopped writing poetry."
"But it is not." He points to the far bank where deer are grazing, and then closer where ducks are swimming where the ice is broken in the shallows. "It is seeming with life. If I were to paint a wasteland, it would be a dying field. A dust bowl. There is nothing so tragic as a field that can't be plowed."
Beat.
Then he scratches his nose and looks abashed. "Ah. Sorry. You were a poet?"
"Do I think you're -- " He sounds exasperated for a moment. "Wrong question. Are you doing what she wants you to do? Because that's the 'right thing'."
The airquotes are audible; he doesn't go so far as to actually make them with his hands.
"The right thing is freeing her and ignoring her when she tries to be a martyr. Slow deaths don't suit us."
"I should tear that prison down myself and take her away. She could be happy on Serenity. In a decade, the government would have stopped calling us traitors. She could be a politician like she wants."
He picks up a stone and tosses it. It only skips twice across the water.
"This was much simpler when I was younger. Punch an alien or a human in a costume, and everything was done."
One of them is there, snow crunching suddenly (and violently) under his boots.
Destruction's arms are folded. He's staring out at the lake.
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But Piotr has the overwhelming feeling that this just might be him.
"Hello--" Destruction, Kitty's father, Dad, Destruction with a question mark, pretend to not know exactly who this is? "--sir."
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Piotr gets a sidelong look.
"Tell me you sitting out here in the cold isn't a symbolic move on your part."
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"I like the snow."
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Beat.
Then he scratches his nose and looks abashed. "Ah. Sorry. You were a poet?"
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...and doesn't say anything else.
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"Do you..." He stops and thinks about it again. "Do you think I am doing the right thing?"
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The airquotes are audible; he doesn't go so far as to actually make them with his hands.
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"I should tear that prison down myself and take her away. She could be happy on Serenity. In a decade, the government would have stopped calling us traitors. She could be a politician like she wants."
He picks up a stone and tosses it. It only skips twice across the water.
"This was much simpler when I was younger. Punch an alien or a human in a costume, and everything was done."
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Deadpan. "Kitty is very much your daughter."
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And he thinks, while he all ready has Kitty's anthropomorphic personification father annoyed with him, why not go all the way?
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