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deborahjross) wrote2013-01-04 02:05 pm
deborahjross) wrote2013-01-04 02:05 pm
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Jaydium - Chapter 27
Things get more desperate as war looms even closer. Read the latest chapter on my blog.
"I was wrong about you," Lennart said slowly. "What I said before the hearing..."
"We were all swiping at each other. You were just--"
"Shut up and let me apologize! I can't hold you accountable for the crazy things your Federation did, any more than I can blame Kithri--or Raerquel. Even Bri, with all her academic bullshit, she'd stand on her head to save these folks. Protesting all the while that her only interest was as a scientist. Maybe in my time, it was people like you that kept us from destroying it all."
"Hey, don't go making me into a hero," Eril said with an embarrassed laugh. "I'm just your everyday fly-boy. I followed orders, I didn't make policy."
"Maybe things would've been better if you had..."
"I was wrong about you," Lennart said slowly. "What I said before the hearing..."
"We were all swiping at each other. You were just--"
"Shut up and let me apologize! I can't hold you accountable for the crazy things your Federation did, any more than I can blame Kithri--or Raerquel. Even Bri, with all her academic bullshit, she'd stand on her head to save these folks. Protesting all the while that her only interest was as a scientist. Maybe in my time, it was people like you that kept us from destroying it all."
"Hey, don't go making me into a hero," Eril said with an embarrassed laugh. "I'm just your everyday fly-boy. I followed orders, I didn't make policy."
"Maybe things would've been better if you had..."