[HELP. there's a startled sort of noise that's more like surprise than anything with the first part and she's a little alarmed, but okay, we are moving on. that's probably for the best.]
I think in anything good, there will be people who find a way to use it for their own greed and corrupt purposes. [literally people who harvest mako from the lifestream, actually.] And I don't think that's necessarily your fault. Even a genius can't always predict how people will behave given a little power over their life.
[as for the rest, well...she listens. she listens quietly, and there's a long moment where she doesn't reply because she's thinking about what he says. "she's well enough to walk." "he's 25 years old." the genius scientist, scien brofiise, who freed the country from the curse.
when she does finally find words, very unfortunately for scien it sort of sounds like she's crying but more because...]
They deserve that much. To grow older, and not worry about only having limited time until his twenty-third birthday and to live together. [because that's been on her mind. someone kind who has been dealt such a hard burden and put through so much abuse, frankly, still having to come to terms with the fact he'd succumb to something unstoppable not long after returning home.] If that's the future that already exists...of course he still has that potential. It's not a lost possibility even if he's going to feel like it is.
[to her credit she does seem to be pulling herself together again because she remembers scien's very much not into emotional responses but let her be happy about this.]
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I think in anything good, there will be people who find a way to use it for their own greed and corrupt purposes. [literally people who harvest mako from the lifestream, actually.] And I don't think that's necessarily your fault. Even a genius can't always predict how people will behave given a little power over their life.
[as for the rest, well...she listens. she listens quietly, and there's a long moment where she doesn't reply because she's thinking about what he says. "she's well enough to walk." "he's 25 years old." the genius scientist, scien brofiise, who freed the country from the curse.
when she does finally find words, very unfortunately for scien it sort of sounds like she's crying but more because...]
They deserve that much. To grow older, and not worry about only having limited time until his twenty-third birthday and to live together. [because that's been on her mind. someone kind who has been dealt such a hard burden and put through so much abuse, frankly, still having to come to terms with the fact he'd succumb to something unstoppable not long after returning home.] If that's the future that already exists...of course he still has that potential. It's not a lost possibility even if he's going to feel like it is.
[to her credit she does seem to be pulling herself together again because she remembers scien's very much not into emotional responses but let her be happy about this.]