[ And then some, or maybe several times over - as Claude absently reaches up to run a hand over the beard he'd been convinced to keep (though in a far more trimmed state than before) it serves as another reminder of just what all that everything was comprised of they aren't elaborating on. It's a strange contrast; a far stranger one than he found while standing at the end of a war looking at a crossroads.
That's before he found himself at yet another one here in Abraxas though the paths leading from that particular one seem far less clear than those at home, so he leans back in his seat with another smile. ]
It's good to see Libertas like this, though. It's hard to believe in some ways that it wasn't all that long ago you and I were crawling through buildings here in the wake of the attack, and now here we are in a park established after everything.
[ It's difficult for him to not think of it in contrast, especially, to the execution resulting after their recovery from their captors in going vastly the other direction in outcomes. A necessary step and one he hadn't disagreed with, though that hadn't made witnessing what the execution consisted of any less harrowing when it turned out to be something vastly different from ones he'd witnessed before.
There's likely been enough discussion of that in the days since and it's not something he's interested in inviting in beyond the chance they're both already thinking of it. After another second or two of silence, Claude shrugs one shoulder slightly. ]
The nature of conflicts in some ways, I suppose, to look for what good can be done after something terrible.
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[ And then some, or maybe several times over - as Claude absently reaches up to run a hand over the beard he'd been convinced to keep (though in a far more trimmed state than before) it serves as another reminder of just what all that everything was comprised of they aren't elaborating on. It's a strange contrast; a far stranger one than he found while standing at the end of a war looking at a crossroads.
That's before he found himself at yet another one here in Abraxas though the paths leading from that particular one seem far less clear than those at home, so he leans back in his seat with another smile. ]
It's good to see Libertas like this, though. It's hard to believe in some ways that it wasn't all that long ago you and I were crawling through buildings here in the wake of the attack, and now here we are in a park established after everything.
[ It's difficult for him to not think of it in contrast, especially, to the execution resulting after their recovery from their captors in going vastly the other direction in outcomes. A necessary step and one he hadn't disagreed with, though that hadn't made witnessing what the execution consisted of any less harrowing when it turned out to be something vastly different from ones he'd witnessed before.
There's likely been enough discussion of that in the days since and it's not something he's interested in inviting in beyond the chance they're both already thinking of it. After another second or two of silence, Claude shrugs one shoulder slightly. ]
The nature of conflicts in some ways, I suppose, to look for what good can be done after something terrible.