❅ Fifteen (Video)

[stonebird]

(Her eyes are red rimmed and she looks like she has been forgoing sleep. There is a bunch of bound paper, neatly tied with pieces of leather, before her and she is using a quill to write. Yet the tip on the writing utensil has broken and so she is having to make another, sharpening it with a small knife.)

If it isn't asking for too much, will you please tell me your best memories? You needn't go into detail; you can even change some details if you wish. All I want to hear are good stories; stories that end with happiness.

(Some warmth to drive out the chill of Winter and loss.)

Comments

[unphase]

[a slightly bitter tone of voice] The thing is, the United Planets was formed to stop conflicts and wars. But when there's a real, direct threat against them, they sit on their hands.

[fortunately, they don't have to worry about something like that]

I hope we win, too. I don't know what will happen if we don't.

[stonebird]

You are safer here. (That is a reason to be glad - even if Hadriel hardly seems a gift most of the time.) I am too. We will face our wars when our time here is done. All we can do is our best.

[unphase]

Even with all of the monsters? [which she fights on a regular basis as a junior member of the Guard] I guess you're right. Much as I wish you weren't. This place will let us go home when it feels like it. Not before.