[His acknowledgment is calm, almost to the point of resignation, and he gently pushes her hand back under the stream of water, attempting to flush the cuts.]
I'm still not sure what they were hoping to achieve. Unity? Cooperation? [The intermittent disgust and resentment creeps back into his voice, but he's not sure where to direct it -- most of it should be on the Caducans for pursuing the whole thing to begin with. The Captains had been in what sounds like a series of difficult situations... then again, they had fully abdicated leadership when the time came.] Half of us are dead.
[That's hyperbole rather than an exact number. No one should have died and some people did anyway, and there's nowhere to take any normal desire for the same kind of revenge on the Caducans that the Caducans had been pursuing to begin with, no comfortable place it can rest. It's been this way for him for a while, since long before coming to the Moira.]
If that's not why they did it, left it to us, then why?
[He's tempted to tell her that it isn't her fault -- he thinks she must be thinking it, on some level -- but she'd turned on him earlier in a way that suggested that she'd resented when he'd perceived an emotional weakness on her part. So they both know it's not her fault, but it also seems that she'll feel better when the blame is squarely placed elsewhere.]
no subject
[His acknowledgment is calm, almost to the point of resignation, and he gently pushes her hand back under the stream of water, attempting to flush the cuts.]
I'm still not sure what they were hoping to achieve. Unity? Cooperation? [The intermittent disgust and resentment creeps back into his voice, but he's not sure where to direct it -- most of it should be on the Caducans for pursuing the whole thing to begin with. The Captains had been in what sounds like a series of difficult situations... then again, they had fully abdicated leadership when the time came.] Half of us are dead.
[That's hyperbole rather than an exact number. No one should have died and some people did anyway, and there's nowhere to take any normal desire for the same kind of revenge on the Caducans that the Caducans had been pursuing to begin with, no comfortable place it can rest. It's been this way for him for a while, since long before coming to the Moira.]
If that's not why they did it, left it to us, then why?
[He's tempted to tell her that it isn't her fault -- he thinks she must be thinking it, on some level -- but she'd turned on him earlier in a way that suggested that she'd resented when he'd perceived an emotional weakness on her part. So they both know it's not her fault, but it also seems that she'll feel better when the blame is squarely placed elsewhere.]