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Nova Prime / Rich Rider ([personal profile] iamresponding) wrote in [community profile] thelegion 2017-06-03 11:04 pm (UTC)

[Rich works his jaw and lets out a long exhale.]

During the war, I saw my fair share of, y'know, schools and -- I was there there when the nursery creches of Xinti --

[He just stops. It isn't that his train of thought stops before it leaves the station -- it derails and leaves no survivors. ]

[He'd already been protective of kids to start with, when the war started.]

I think stuff like this hits automatic rage buttons for a lot of us. And we all have our different ways of thinking because of all of our respective absolutely terrible experiences. And mine's not...

I wasn't rank and file. Mine is what it is because it was my call. It was always my call. And I felt a lot differently about my men than -- you know.

[...than all these absolute monsters he keeps hearing about.]

Sorry. I respect that you have your reasons to feel the way you do, even if I still disagree. And what's done is done. I'd be pissed if people were digging into my past bullshit too.

I'll stop the soldier trauma train here.

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