[ First was the calm, the sharp ozone, the bright fortune of clarity. The chance to run and hide. Then the shadow, the doubt, the cloud cover. Once the storms came--torrential and lacking the capacity to hide, lie, or cheat, for they simply were in all their destruction--nothing was ever the same.
Shouta listens to her as both a Captain and as someone who has banked his life on taking every death personally, even when the first thing they tell you is not to. On believing firepower was the answer to firepower, an eye for an eye, a heart for a heart. A life for a life, no matter how it was wrought and hammered through the judicial system, a journey of courts and broken levies alike.
Rather simply, he replies: ]
I had a partner.
[ An admittance that bears the brunt of all his conviction, once-upon-a-time dashed to pieces. It's a rare thing to leave his lips, but there is something in her that is easy to recall in himself.
Like he might trust her to understand with that hardened heart of hers what it was like to have nowhere else to go but forward. ]
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Shouta listens to her as both a Captain and as someone who has banked his life on taking every death personally, even when the first thing they tell you is not to. On believing firepower was the answer to firepower, an eye for an eye, a heart for a heart. A life for a life, no matter how it was wrought and hammered through the judicial system, a journey of courts and broken levies alike.
Rather simply, he replies: ]
I had a partner.
[ An admittance that bears the brunt of all his conviction, once-upon-a-time dashed to pieces. It's a rare thing to leave his lips, but there is something in her that is easy to recall in himself.
Like he might trust her to understand with that hardened heart of hers what it was like to have nowhere else to go but forward. ]