[Sometimes it was easier to be nothing more than simple soldiers fighting a war. It was their own world, their own principles and the cares of people's opinion for their actions was a long, long distance away. There was no expectation, just hope for survival, that maybe they would come home from the many battles.
Reaper liked to think he had a small touch of that with Talon, brief and fake as it was. In the end, he intended to nest himself deeply for answers and then destroy everything. When he removed himself from this new dream, he told himself. His revenge had meaning still, years after being cast off course of it.
He intended for Jack and Ana to survive at least.]
And yet, you're still running on fumes, aren't you? Pushed to your very limits.
[He looked at their hands, tainted as they were by the sins of their actions. He shifted his in the air to trace fingers over those raised plates under skin. Soft but hard.]
You say that, but if you are exhausted enough, you will. [Stubborn asshole.] This place is safe enough, if that's what it will take for you to not be such a stubborn asshole.
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Date: 2021-12-02 04:00 pm (UTC)From:Reaper liked to think he had a small touch of that with Talon, brief and fake as it was. In the end, he intended to nest himself deeply for answers and then destroy everything. When he removed himself from this new dream, he told himself. His revenge had meaning still, years after being cast off course of it.
He intended for Jack and Ana to survive at least.]
And yet, you're still running on fumes, aren't you? Pushed to your very limits.
[He looked at their hands, tainted as they were by the sins of their actions. He shifted his in the air to trace fingers over those raised plates under skin. Soft but hard.]
You say that, but if you are exhausted enough, you will. [Stubborn asshole.] This place is safe enough, if that's what it will take for you to not be such a stubborn asshole.