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fireincarnate) wrote2014-11-06 03:07 pm
fireincarnate) wrote2014-11-06 03:07 pm
31 - Video - Backdated to 4th
[It's amazing, what playing with life and death will take out of you.
She's not sure what she did, exactly - just that she fixed something that was broken, and it took near everything she had. And it came on top of everything else - a month of being helpless, the chaos of the collision, the loss of everyone on Mirror Barge, their own people still missing.
(If she thinks about it took hard - about where Anya might be, if she's even alive - she thinks she might break.)
So she's just been resting. Recovering her strength, regaining her equilibrium. Talking to Morgana helped and hurt in equal measure, but it gave her the push she needed.
She knows how to put on a good face - to look calm and assured, even when she's twisted up inside. Her smile is warm and open, lit by the fire dancing round her fingers.]
I know we're all recovering right now. For those who don't know - I'm something of a therapist. If anyone wants to talk, I'm here.
[Current Patients]
How are you doing? Do you need anything?
[Wichita]
[Her smile turns rueful.] I'm sorry it took me this long to check in. Did you come through everything okay?
[Emperor]
[This is the first time she hesitates. She's not sure how she feels, now, about the choices she made on Mirror Barge. About how she's changed and what that means. About what his goal really was, in guiding her.
But ignoring it would be cowardly - and whatever his reasons, he helped her. He made her feel strong, secure, in ways she didn't think possible.]
I wanted to thank you. [Yes, that's true enough.] I know you had a bigger agenda, there, but I - I think I would have been a lot worse, without you there.
She's not sure what she did, exactly - just that she fixed something that was broken, and it took near everything she had. And it came on top of everything else - a month of being helpless, the chaos of the collision, the loss of everyone on Mirror Barge, their own people still missing.
(If she thinks about it took hard - about where Anya might be, if she's even alive - she thinks she might break.)
So she's just been resting. Recovering her strength, regaining her equilibrium. Talking to Morgana helped and hurt in equal measure, but it gave her the push she needed.
She knows how to put on a good face - to look calm and assured, even when she's twisted up inside. Her smile is warm and open, lit by the fire dancing round her fingers.]
I know we're all recovering right now. For those who don't know - I'm something of a therapist. If anyone wants to talk, I'm here.
[Current Patients]
How are you doing? Do you need anything?
[Wichita]
[Her smile turns rueful.] I'm sorry it took me this long to check in. Did you come through everything okay?
[Emperor]
[This is the first time she hesitates. She's not sure how she feels, now, about the choices she made on Mirror Barge. About how she's changed and what that means. About what his goal really was, in guiding her.
But ignoring it would be cowardly - and whatever his reasons, he helped her. He made her feel strong, secure, in ways she didn't think possible.]
I wanted to thank you. [Yes, that's true enough.] I know you had a bigger agenda, there, but I - I think I would have been a lot worse, without you there.