june intro log overflow

[hohnkai]

This is an overflow for the intro post.

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[paixatoutprix]

[The words are too vague to make sense to her immediately, but the expression on his face conveys it a little better. Still, did he really mean that the entirety of MSF had been lost? That after her mission had failed, Cipher had decided to wipe the slate clean?

Oh, Cipher... "If I can't have it, no-one can." That is really how you chose to do things? How pathetic. Her nose scrunches at the thought, both sick to her stomach at the waste of it all, and disappointed at how childish Cipher's retaliation had been.

As for the comments about Snake... that is even harder to parse. They had gone their different ways? Surely not by Miller's choice, considering his feelings...

But then, how long has it been? What is this man now, if not commander of MSF? She searches his face, his whole appearance for an explanation, until she's startled of it by his question.

He's giving her a choice. For the first time in her life, she has a choice. Fists clenched at her sides, she is struck dumb. What is the correct answer, here?

It slowly dawns on her that there is no correct answer. This is what choice is. The words stick in her throat as she begins to speak, mouth uncertain for once. A lot of firsts, today.]

...P-Pacifica is a bit of a mouthful, isn't it? I mean, you understand, don't you? Kazuhira?

[She steps back, wringing her hands behind her. An uneasy grimace creeps up, a poor imitation of the typical idol's charming smile.]

So, ah, Paz will be fine?

[warandpeace]

Yeah. Little bit.

[There's something sadder about his voice. More gravelly. He has mixed feelings about having lost Snake; in some ways, he knows it was his fault. In others, he still feels abandoned. They've made up to some extent, but Big Boss is all he is now. And Big Boss has no place for men named Peace.]

[There's nothing that Paz loved about the MSF in Outer Heaven. Not from what he heard.]

[Kaz frowns down at her, and that's what he settles on doing. Not attacking her, not yelling at her (even if he's fully capable of it), not hugging her like another lost thing that he suddenly found. Retrieved from the depths of an unthinkable fate that most of them sank into. Fake though she was.]

[He heard the tapes, though. Not all that fake.]

[Still with that idol smile. Still as young as when she was on Zeke. But after everything that Skull Face put her through... He remembers that the medic supposedly opened her up, and his eyes trail down to look at her stomach. Then lower. That frown deepens a little more, brow creasing up.]

[That's when he raises his hands a little, one real, one fake, and takes a step forward like he's thinking about hugging her, but also isn't sure about it.]