[well that's a thought isn't it? he can't imagine what it's been like for her, having been here so much longer, but even in his short time here, he's lost acquaintances and people he would have called friends.]
I would imagine it's about the same, if they're just transferred out and not returning home. It's not as if ALASTAIR is giving them desk jobs or retirement packages.
[She's had two birthdays here with ALASTAIR... it's been nearly two years. Something she'd never expected. Something she sometimes thought might still be wrong.]
In my time here, I have known personally of only on recruit who was supposedly sent home.
The key word being "supposedly," though I imagine they have no reason to lie about it when it's just as easy to say they transferred out.
Still, those aren't good odds for the rest of us. I don't care about going back just yet, but I suppose I will, eventually, and it won't really matter. Not without knowing what the criteria for gaining special treatment is.
[he's curious- he always is, everything about Sieglinde being such a mystery beyond what she's said. and to be honest, he believes quite a bit of it is fabrication of a sort. there are threads that can be unraveled if you yank too hard on them. he just tends to resist the urge.]
You've surely earned that right. I can't imagine they would deny you if you asked.
[and she thinks she's not kind. well, that makes two of them, anyway.]
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Thank you.
It would be appreciated.
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[a beat and then he adds, in a different text:]
That part is always inevitable, isn't it? And I can't fix everything at once. I can only tell them where to point their efforts and hope it works.
[being an insufferable know-it-all is hard work, especially when he's been right fairly consistently. even if he's wrong, they'll be no worse off.]
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I know it is a consequence of our... recruitments, but it frustrates.
It is a shame we cannot be every which where at once.
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I do not know if that is for the better or worse.
Or if ALASTAIR simple shuffles about so that we will be slow to realize how few of us are returned home.
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I would imagine it's about the same, if they're just transferred out and not returning home. It's not as if ALASTAIR is giving them desk jobs or retirement packages.
It's not comforting, I know.
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In my time here, I have known personally of only on recruit who was supposedly sent home.
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Still, those aren't good odds for the rest of us. I don't care about going back just yet, but I suppose I will, eventually, and it won't really matter. Not without knowing what the criteria for gaining special treatment is.
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[That's just as "supposedly" as everything else.]
If I will grow old and die here then so be it, but there is something I must see told to my people, at the very least.
I can not waver on that.
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You've surely earned that right. I can't imagine they would deny you if you asked.
[and she thinks she's not kind. well, that makes two of them, anyway.]
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[If they got off this world.
If she ever finds that cure to tell her world of at all.]