[ text ] un: aragaki; like 4 am

[petsthedog]

[It comes on the network like an intrusive thought -- because it is. Because Shinjiro can't sleep, even with all the talk of distracting activities like movies and pumpkin carving and costume parties. (Where do you even get costumes on a spaceship, anyway?)

Because he can't stop thinking about what Olexa said in that building, at the end. Would you die trying to get that stone back? Cheri's motivations were selfish, but then, aren't theirs too? So-Yeon's hadn't been, and while she'd surrendered the orb, what if she hadn't? What about the next mission?]

do you think the orb is worth killing people for

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[bossily]

[Yep. Everything here is fine. Absolutely fine. And in no way leaving Clara questioning her choices. Nope.]

That could wind up being a factor. I'm not really sure how to answer that until I've been put in the position of having to stop someone. The way the past couple of missions have gone...anything's possible.

[petsthedog]

guessin that means you weren't in the group attackin lionetta hq
i dunno if i could pick and choose who to let die or not
you never know who they got to leave behind

[bossily]

Thing is, sometimes you have to make choices when you don't want to or when you weren't expecting to have to. And the only options available are all terrible, and you have to decide in a matter of seconds what the least awful option is. You can discuss hypotheticals all you want, but it's different when you actually have to make decisions in the heat of the moment. I used to think that I'd always be able to make the right choice. But I know now that sometimes there is no right choice. It's just a choice, and everyone has to learn to live through the fallout from your decision.