“That could be a place to start, letting yourself feel like it had meaning.” This is going to take a while, and require more people than just them. Expressing his emotions could help, but if they have no idea how to express theirs, they also have no way of helping him express his.
"It could be," he allows, "it's certainly a better way of looking at the whole thing." This is what he likes about Avalon, they often offer a point of view he wouldn't have considered.
"To some extent. Van Voytz likes Gaunt, he wouldn't send us to die for no reason. There was some strategy there, I'm sure." And Van Voytz wasn't, in his experience, the type of officer to throw lives away for no reason.
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Date: 2025-02-11 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-02-22 03:15 am (UTC)Different people need different things. And sometimes people just...need to feel bad for a while.
“If that were true, would it change how you feel?”
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Date: 2025-02-22 03:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-03 04:46 am (UTC)“That could be a place to start, letting yourself feel like it had meaning.” This is going to take a while, and require more people than just them. Expressing his emotions could help, but if they have no idea how to express theirs, they also have no way of helping him express his.
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Date: 2025-03-03 05:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-07 05:30 am (UTC)“Is it a realistic way of looking at it?” They might have seen it in the dream Flood, but seeing it and experiencing it are two different things.
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Date: 2025-03-07 08:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-15 02:39 am (UTC)“Everyone in that situation made mistakes.” As far as they can tell. “Maybe you or your commanders learned something from it.”
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Date: 2025-03-15 02:51 am (UTC)"I fucking hope so. Otherwise they're idiots."