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heavyweaponsbot) wrote2012-03-17 02:21 am
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19th - Audio
... Anyone else suddenly get a bad feeling?
As if something horrible has happened, and you have no power to set it right again?
[He has no idea where this feeling is coming from, or why it's there, but ignoring it isn't exactly helping anything.]
[It just makes him feel more and more restless.]
Need to go hit something. Badly.
As if something horrible has happened, and you have no power to set it right again?
[He has no idea where this feeling is coming from, or why it's there, but ignoring it isn't exactly helping anything.]
[It just makes him feel more and more restless.]
Need to go hit something. Badly.
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[He's seem the boy grow up a lot. But on the open ocean like that... with nothing in sight...]
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I-I don't...
[This is hard. This is really hard. There's a significant pause here, and the feed almost cuts out due to the silence.
But then, he speaks.]
I-I don't think, th-that there was... a-any-- a-anything left o-on the Shore to... t-to leave behind.
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What does that...
What does that mean?
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Sh-- sh-she said... e-ev-- e-everyone was... d-dead.
G-Gideon, V--V-Vie...
...y...you.
[On the last word, his voice breaks.]
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[Utter, complete, silence.]
[Not even the sound of shifting metal.]
[No. They didn't get that far, they didn't survive that long, for it to come to this. For him to lose what was most important, most dear to him... while he wasn't even there to save it.]
[Ratchet.]
[No.]
[It's his immediate thought. His immediate regret -- his own life was always going to be cut short. He was a soldier, a warrior. He was built for a life of brutality and violence. He can deal with that.]
[The rest... No. No, no no.]
... That... can't happen.
[It barely sounds like his voice -- it's too rough, too worn, and undercut with the clatter of heavy armor sagging against a wall.]
It was a lie. A lie.
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Sh-she... she-- w-wouldn't... lie. N-Not-- not if-- i-if it was... r-really her.
[And Xanth is certain that it was.
The first tears fall and stain his journal's paper.]
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... that cannot... that can't happen.
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[Xanth's words are barely a whisper.]
I-I'm so-- s-so s--sorry--
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[Maybe if he says it enough, it will make it true.]
It will not be this way.
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[He doesn't have the heart to argue this, but he simply cannot agree.]