game overflow

[intohell]

 Because fuck Captcha.

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Flower Maze continued

[intohell]

[It works for them--sort of. At least neither one has ever had any complaints about it.]

I believe that, at that time, it was an adequate description.

[He could take most of the credit, or blame, for the change but she was obviously not the same girl she'd been so long ago. Not that she minds as much as she might have.]

I had a good reason to get stronger, though. Something worth the effort. [Funny how, right now, she feels more like that girl than she has in years.] I wouldn't have found that without you.

[weaponsgrade]

[He chuckles softly, hands deep in his pockets. No, he's not sure it was an adequate description. Reserved she might have been, but that steel core had always been there.]

All I did was dream. [There's something sad and bitter underneath the words. They had both had such big dreams and then they had both gone to war.] You deserved far better than anything I drew you into.

[intohell]

[Wasn't that the nature of dreams? They sometimes turn to nightmares before you wake up and realize how to make them come true.]

It was my choice; you didn't force me into anything. [No matter what he thought, she'd made her own decisions along the way.] That dream gave me something, and someone, to believe in. [And despite, or perhaps because of everything they'd been through it was important for him to understand.] I still do.

[weaponsgrade]

[You are far kinder than he is, Lieutenant. Far, far more generous. He counts his role in her grief as one of his greatest sins.]

It's that belief that keeps me walking forward.

[He's not even paying attention to the foliage anymore.]

[intohell]

[They could go back and forth on who to lay that blame on. In the end, they should probably settle it at the feet of her father and let it go. He was the start of all of this they just had to conclude it.]

Maybe that's why we work so well together. We need each other.

[And that sounded really dumb, not as dumb as suggesting equivalent exchange or something, but still really dumb.]

[weaponsgrade]

[Maybe he's awful, but at that, he starts chuckling. This? This stuff they already knew was the best they could come up with?

... But then, they likely already knew anything else they could say.]

We're both pathetic. You know that, right?

[intohell]

[There was a difference between knowing something and saying it, especially where someone else could hear it.]

I think I've heard General Armstrong say that once or twice. Of course, that could have just been in reference to you, but the thought counts.

[Since she wouldn't agree to the transfer the general kept trying to convince her to take.]

[weaponsgrade]

I'm pretty sure she was talking about me. [He knows exactly what Olivier Armstrong thinks of him. She's not exactly a timid thing.]

I know she's tried to get you to transfer to her command. I'm glad you haven't.

[intohell]

[The general didn't have any issues speaking her mind or letting everyone know where they stood in her opinion.]

Well, I don't have any plans on leaving anytime soon. Unless it's getting out of this maze.

[Since their way seems to be open again.]

[weaponsgrade]

[Oh. Right. They're supposed to be paying attention to the maze.

He forgotten about that.]

That, I can get behind.

[Lead the way, lieutenant.]