he delivers this story very quietly, folding his hands in his lap - with the steadiness of his ]
He... We were in the middle of a political event when a fleet of ships attacked the planet we were on, and the situation got out of control. He was on the ground, and I wasn't. He's - Lin's the commander of the Silver Ten, the best military force in any of the galaxies, so of course, he was trying to help. I found out he was going to pilot his ship directly into a transfer portal that connected us to another galaxy - in doing so, he was aiming to cut the other ships off and destroy them from inside, so that the Eighth would be safe from attacks like it. [ so he would be safe, so lu bixing would be. ] I knew it was dangerous, and I tried to follow him so I could bring him back and stop him, and his second in command even enabled it. She gave me the keys to a mech and told me to go to a launch bay. I took the keys, walked into the elevator...
...And the second the doors closed, they filled the elevator with an anesthetic gas that knocked me out against my will. On Lin's orders.
When I woke up, he'd blown up the entire transfer portal to save us, and killed himself in the process. My father died, too - they both knew exactly what they were doing, and they sacrificed their lives to make sure I could keep living.
[ as he finishes, he looks down, and for the first time - someone who's always a light, someone who tends to carry gravitas, just looks so, so tired. ]
The only problem with that was that I didn't want to, without either of them there. But neither of them thought about that. No one ever does.
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he delivers this story very quietly, folding his hands in his lap - with the steadiness of his ]
He... We were in the middle of a political event when a fleet of ships attacked the planet we were on, and the situation got out of control. He was on the ground, and I wasn't. He's - Lin's the commander of the Silver Ten, the best military force in any of the galaxies, so of course, he was trying to help. I found out he was going to pilot his ship directly into a transfer portal that connected us to another galaxy - in doing so, he was aiming to cut the other ships off and destroy them from inside, so that the Eighth would be safe from attacks like it. [ so he would be safe, so lu bixing would be. ] I knew it was dangerous, and I tried to follow him so I could bring him back and stop him, and his second in command even enabled it. She gave me the keys to a mech and told me to go to a launch bay. I took the keys, walked into the elevator...
...And the second the doors closed, they filled the elevator with an anesthetic gas that knocked me out against my will. On Lin's orders.
When I woke up, he'd blown up the entire transfer portal to save us, and killed himself in the process. My father died, too - they both knew exactly what they were doing, and they sacrificed their lives to make sure I could keep living.
[ as he finishes, he looks down, and for the first time - someone who's always a light, someone who tends to carry gravitas, just looks so, so tired. ]
The only problem with that was that I didn't want to, without either of them there. But neither of them thought about that. No one ever does.