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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-02-23 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
I am.

[she doesn't sound like she's bragging. she just says this as if it's a simple fact.]
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1/2

[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-02-23 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
I told him he couldn't make me leave!
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2/2

[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-02-23 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
[a beat. something occurs to her.]

...though, I suppose he didn't have to.
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-02-23 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
I'm here now. So I'm away from the battlefield, like he wanted.
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-02-23 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
I might not have left because of him, but he still got what he wanted.

[she sighs. maybe he didn't win, but she sure as heck didn't win either!]

He probably thinks I just went back to the capital.
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-02-23 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[she shakes her head]

I could do more good treating the victims of the plague and the injured soldiers than I could in the capital. By the time I got there and back, they'd be...
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-02-24 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
...

[she's quiet for a few long moments, and then - ]

...do you think the people I left behind are okay?
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-02-24 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
...I hope you're right.
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-02-24 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
...

[she nods once]
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-02-24 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
It's not your fault. You don't need to apologize.
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-02-24 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
It is what it is.

[she just has to find a way back somehow. that's all.]
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-02-24 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
...I'm sure.

[...]

Sorry. I guess coming over here isn't going to help you get much rest, is it.

[me trying to wrap this w0 sunday thread before body discovery]

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