[She can hear him breathing, and it makes her feel calmer - soothed and grounded. It might be the last time she gets to be this close to him, and she desperately wants to make the moment last.]
[The question is - well, it's complicated. It's the only home she's ever known, and she wants to succeed in it. Excel in it. But before she can, there's one thing she has to do, one obstacle she has to remove. She wonders if Ben knows what it is, if he'd approve. Apparently the Admiral does; she hasn't been demoted just for thinking of it.]
I want to go back. But I don't have anything there. I don't have resources. I don't have money.
[She cocks her head up at him, wondering if he'd disapprove of a deal being used this way. Somehow she doesn't think so; he's not so sentimental as some other people, at least not in the ways that count.]
[ Spam ]
[The question is - well, it's complicated. It's the only home she's ever known, and she wants to succeed in it. Excel in it. But before she can, there's one thing she has to do, one obstacle she has to remove. She wonders if Ben knows what it is, if he'd approve. Apparently the Admiral does; she hasn't been demoted just for thinking of it.]
I want to go back. But I don't have anything there. I don't have resources. I don't have money.
[She cocks her head up at him, wondering if he'd disapprove of a deal being used this way. Somehow she doesn't think so; he's not so sentimental as some other people, at least not in the ways that count.]