"You're still the biggest fish to me," she teases gently, pinching his cheek. She actually thinks it's not a great idea for any of the Summoned to make a name for themselves in this world, that they should all blend in and just get by. Attention from the public, from the merchant class, from the city guards, it all leads to attention from the government. And that scares Julie. She doesn't want eyes on the people she cares about, and especially not on herself. It's bad enough that they're already easy targets, but with it turning out that some of them have a special connection with the Singularity... she can't help but think of Relena.
The Summoned will never be people to those who bring them here. They're resources to be used, at best.
"Yeah, we had the 'exterminate a whole race' war, too. More than one throughout history, I suppose, but about fifty years before I was born, there was a war that was so big, practically every country had a stake in it. World War 2. My country was on the right side of history for that one. We got to be the good guys." Kind of. Even Julie knows it was more complicated than that, but she can't currently be assed to think about that or recall anything other than America, fuck yeah!.
She's quiet for a minute after he says his mom died. Julie almost never talks about her parents, not in detail. But she is realizing at this moment that it's getting hard to remember anything except those final days. She doesn't want her past to slip through her fingers; it's already been completely erased except in her memories. If she loses those, then it's like it all happened for nothing.
"My parents died on the same day," she finally says before draining the rest of her glass. "I'm sure they thought of me as a let-down."
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The Summoned will never be people to those who bring them here. They're resources to be used, at best.
"Yeah, we had the 'exterminate a whole race' war, too. More than one throughout history, I suppose, but about fifty years before I was born, there was a war that was so big, practically every country had a stake in it. World War 2. My country was on the right side of history for that one. We got to be the good guys." Kind of. Even Julie knows it was more complicated than that, but she can't currently be assed to think about that or recall anything other than America, fuck yeah!.
She's quiet for a minute after he says his mom died. Julie almost never talks about her parents, not in detail. But she is realizing at this moment that it's getting hard to remember anything except those final days. She doesn't want her past to slip through her fingers; it's already been completely erased except in her memories. If she loses those, then it's like it all happened for nothing.
"My parents died on the same day," she finally says before draining the rest of her glass. "I'm sure they thought of me as a let-down."