Then you'd have to go through me. [ She settles one hand on her hip, ignoring the urge to fidget. If she's here, and Puma is here … then there's a non-zero chance that Wash could be here, too. ] Just like he would. [ Seriously, do not think she doesn't have what it takes to step between a pair of angry, self-destructive idiots. ]
… [ But it makes her think … makes her think, beyond the wall she's thrown up between herself and her feelings (he's there he's here, Aoko, hug him), that maybe— ]
[ When she speaks again, her voice is determinedly softer, if only by a little. ] Connie—CT—is the one who taught Wash how to handle a knife. [ … ] She was also the only other person in Freelancer who looked at the board and saw what I did, though she was better than me at getting the actual evidence. We're friends. Kind of. It's complicated, between the havoc nuke she dropped on us and the tomahawk I took to the gut to save her life. [ There's no real inflection there, just a statement of fact. Yeah, that happened. ]
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Then you'd have to go through me. [ She settles one hand on her hip, ignoring the urge to fidget. If she's here, and Puma is here … then there's a non-zero chance that Wash could be here, too. ] Just like he would. [ Seriously, do not think she doesn't have what it takes to step between a pair of angry, self-destructive idiots. ]
… [ But it makes her think … makes her think, beyond the wall she's thrown up between herself and her feelings (he's there he's here, Aoko, hug him), that maybe— ]
[ When she speaks again, her voice is determinedly softer, if only by a little. ] Connie—CT—is the one who taught Wash how to handle a knife. [ … ] She was also the only other person in Freelancer who looked at the board and saw what I did, though she was better than me at getting the actual evidence. We're friends. Kind of. It's complicated, between the havoc nuke she dropped on us and the tomahawk I took to the gut to save her life. [ There's no real inflection there, just a statement of fact. Yeah, that happened. ]
She's alive somewhere out there.