And forever for her is over for me [W6, Saturday, Post-Trial]

[hydrokinetics]

[He's curled up in a ball on the floor, a piece of paper clutched in his hand. He's not able to meet anybody's eyes right now but he knows this is important.

Shinnosuke and Natalie are gone. Jason's MIA. Their numbers are so small and not for the first time he wonders if he should be more scared than he feels.

However, he talks to the top of his shoes instead.]

...go ahead. Lay it on me. [About how he and Jason should have mentioned things sooner. There's a lot more he wants to say, but one step at a time.]

Comments

[bittybat]

I don't think she cared about her death, most of all. So long as she was "protecting friends."

[hydrokinetics]

She never cared about that. [A frown.] From the beginning, she didn't value her life. She started to want to live, I think, but in the end...I hope it wasn't exactly like that.

[bittybat]

[Damian gives Percy a hard frown.]

Maybe she valued her life the most because she was willing to sacrifice it in order to protect others.

[hydrokinetics]

You think? [He doesn't discount that, simply raising an eyebrow to see where Damian's going with this.] I never said she was selfish, you know.