[There is nothing to say, so Isley says nothing. Snake-Eyes has interested the Abyssal One from the first moment they met, when he'd had Isley's back in a civil conflict...and this dream is fuel to that fire.]
[So he sits patiently, staring at the screen and waiting for Snake-Eyes to tell him the outcome of the mission. Was it indeed suicide? Or did he return, and if so, what had he returned to but an life of loss?]
Then you made it back safely and had something worth returning to waiting for you in the end. [How fairytale. But Isley isn't bitter. He smiles softly.] Did she make a full recovery after waking?
At the price of my objective. George died standing up for an orphaned peasant on the verge of execution.
[Not that much of a fairytale after all. The only solace Snake-Eyes can take from this is that George died the way he'd wanted, and the orphan earned herself a brighter future in the US.]
In time. No injury that grave heals so easily. But today she remains unmatched with the crossbow, to say nothing of her counter-intel savvy.
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[So he sits patiently, staring at the screen and waiting for Snake-Eyes to tell him the outcome of the mission. Was it indeed suicide? Or did he return, and if so, what had he returned to but an life of loss?]
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She lived. Against all odds.
The obvious lesson is it's never till it's over. But they later told me my absence woke her up.
I just might truly have been a broken man had I stayed.
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[Not that much of a fairytale after all. The only solace Snake-Eyes can take from this is that George died the way he'd wanted, and the orphan earned herself a brighter future in the US.]
In time. No injury that grave heals so easily. But today she remains unmatched with the crossbow, to say nothing of her counter-intel savvy.
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The rebels we helped fell within months. Borovia's trapped in a cycle of revolutions and counter-revolutions to this day.
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Waste of manpower and resources. The next guys in line got to kick their asses for us anyway.
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