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asgardeventide2014-11-15 01:04 am
tonsofpun) wrote in asgardeventide2014-11-15 01:04 am
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D539 (before the battle) | Voice
... ugh.
[Ellie sounds... out of it. Not herself. Distracted, like she's been hit a few too many times in the head, or is somehow drugged up. She's finding her way but she's slow, like she's having to think about every word before she says it.]
So. Question -- how many of you guys have been in two places at once?
I think I was back in my... my world. For a while.
But I was here, too.
Anybody?
[Ellie sounds... out of it. Not herself. Distracted, like she's been hit a few too many times in the head, or is somehow drugged up. She's finding her way but she's slow, like she's having to think about every word before she says it.]
So. Question -- how many of you guys have been in two places at once?
I think I was back in my... my world. For a while.
But I was here, too.
Anybody?
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Yeah. No one should have died. ... But, Ellie, we should have never seen those things, either!
[ It's the same argument that he's been having with himself. He's using the same logic he's been using to blame the other person. ]
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... anyway. It's- there's nothing I can do to change it. We just have to make sure that we stop Thiazi, so this can never happen again.
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[ it's crazy but his crazy plans have always worked so it's okay, right? ]
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He wouldn't say all of that unless he was sure, but--Ellie, you've been here longer, right? Do you know more about it?
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I don't, actually.
Shit, I've been here forever, and all I've ever really done is fight when the city was in trouble, or if somebody needed help. I mean, I never really... thought all that much about her, personally.
[Which seems so stupid, now that she admits it.]
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Not even -- people like you and me and Killua, who make the choice to fight. People who just wanted to live. She and her generals have attacked cities-
[Ellie cuts off, vividly remembering the giant rooms, the gatherings of the wounded and the dying in Alfheim. She remembers the people, the elves, their leader who nearly begged them to help save who they could. She remembers walking through the cots, seeing those who were too far gone-]
I don't know her, but I know what she does.
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[ It's a simple reason. But, he's a simple person. Once again, his voice is distant.
He doesn't like the look in her eyes and he knows that she's been hurt, too. That she had to go through something similar. His mouth thins. ]
If she's not a God anymore, doesn't that mean we can stop her?
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[It sounds painful to say. As easily as Ellie pulls the trigger, she is aware of the weight of that choice. She knows what it means to kill, of what it means to put her life on the line, knowing there isn't any other option.]
We're sure as hell gonna try.
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[ He's glad that he has her support. Though, he didn't want anything to happen to her, either. But, he trusted her. He knew that she was strong. ]
I'm glad we're friends.
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[It brings her up short. They haven't known each other very long, after all. But when she considers what they've been through, the things they already know about each other, is it really so surprising?
Without meaning to, she grins. Warm and open in a way that fits her, that lights up her whole face.]
Yeah, me too.
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[ He didn't think so. That idea seems silly to him. ]
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Guess you're right. I'm still not used to making friends that easy, that's all.
Or friends at all, up until I met Riley.
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[ He grins. ]
We're kind of the same. I didn't have any friends my age until I met Killua, too.
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[Ellie finds it hard to believe. Gon is one of those people who would make friends wherever he goes, right?]
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I grew up on an island with my Aunt and Grandma. It was mostly fishermen and tourists there.
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[Enough to make her hungry, curious, the way she always is in the face of something new. So few people she knows have grown up with their family, let alone an extended family.]
What are they like? What did you do all the time?
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Grandma is the same, but she's always quick to let me get away with more than Miss Mito does.
I tried to help Miss Mito out back at home--we'd go out and do a lot of family dates, though. But, I haven't done anything like that in a long time.
[ He doesn't really hesitate to answer any of her questions - why should he? He's never been one to hold any sorts of secrets, or anything of the sort. ]
What was your family like?
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I- uh. I don't really know. They've been gone a long, long time.
[She doesn't say it with that much sadness. Just a fact. It is what it is, right? How can she miss what she's never had. Ellie brightens a moment later, getting an idea.]
I could tell you about Joel. He's the closest thing I've got to a family.
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Okay. [ He nods. ] I'd like to hear about him.
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