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FTEC, Thursday (5/5)

May 05, 2011 07:26

Scully was writing up reports, while keeping an eye on Triela.

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Triela's Room showmetheproof May 5 2011, 13:27:13 UTC

[Wait 'til she pings in]

Re: Triela's Room swordsandsoccer May 5 2011, 17:16:53 UTC

"...No," Dolf said, looking at her.

Re: Triela's Room sorella_vecchia May 5 2011, 17:17:52 UTC

"That's why I ended up where I did. It was cybernetics or nothing." She shrugged. "So... I got some extra years already."

Re: Triela's Room swordsandsoccer May 5 2011, 17:42:44 UTC

Dolf shut his eyes and squeezed the bridge of his nose with his fingers. "And so this is just it," he said. He sounded a little strangled.

Re: Triela's Room sorella_vecchia May 5 2011, 17:44:43 UTC

"Sorry I didn't tell you earlier," Triela said softly. She didn't like seeing him so... raw.

Re: Triela's Room swordsandsoccer May 5 2011, 17:46:33 UTC

This was all tangled up in all the other stuff that had happened to Dolf back in 1212. "You remind me a little of my friend Carolus," he said, after a long moment. "He got sick too but he kept going because he thought people needed him to."

Re: Triela's Room sorella_vecchia May 5 2011, 17:47:24 UTC

"Maybe he just kept going because there was nothing else he could do," Triela suggested. After all, what else would she have done?

Re: Triela's Room swordsandsoccer May 5 2011, 17:51:00 UTC

"Carolus was a fighter," Dolf said, opening his eyes. He smiled again, eyes watery, but at least the smile was a little more honest. "He was going to be King of Jerusalem once we got there, and he already was, really. A little king. And then one day he fell and I tried everything I could, but even then I knew there was nothing I could really do."

And all the kids had kept looking at him.

Re: Triela's Room sorella_vecchia May 5 2011, 17:55:10 UTC

"And you feel like it was your fault? Your responsibility?"

Re: Triela's Room swordsandsoccer May 5 2011, 18:00:46 UTC

"My friends from there were always better at doing this," Dolf said, sort of answering the question. "Leonardo left for a while, and when he came back, half the children he had known had died in a battle. I told him, and he just went--" Dolf shrugged his shoulder. "'I heard something about that.'"

Re: Triela's Room sorella_vecchia May 5 2011, 18:50:15 UTC

"Different worlds, I suppose," Triela mused softly. "I mean, this isn't some sort of surprise to me, you know? I've had time to get used to it."

Re: Triela's Room swordsandsoccer May 5 2011, 18:52:17 UTC

"I wish I could be like you and Leonardo," Dolf said, staring at his hands. "Just shrug and it's okay."

Except he didn't, really.

He shook his head. "But that's not important, is it."

Re: Triela's Room sorella_vecchia May 5 2011, 18:55:10 UTC

"Hey," Triela chided, "I rather like you the way you are."

Re: Triela's Room swordsandsoccer May 5 2011, 18:57:24 UTC

In some ways, Dolf did know what it was like, walking through the mountains with so many dying he couldn't care for every single one any more. But that wasn't quite the same, and he should really shut up about it.

So he looked up and looked her in the eyes instead. "I've liked you the way you are, too," he said. "Thanks."

Re: Triela's Room sorella_vecchia May 5 2011, 18:59:27 UTC

Triela chuckled. "Just makes you a poor judge of character," she teased him.

Re: Triela's Room swordsandsoccer May 5 2011, 19:03:09 UTC

"Maybe I am," Dolf said, shrugging a little. His eyes were still wet. "But you're okay with that."

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