It's Lord of the Flies in my mind tonight
She gently brushes away his sympathy with an expression that says ‘it happens,’ because to her, it does. Everyone dies (mostly). Death and life go hand in hand and she is all too familiar with it. Hopefully his life here will be different.
And it might be, because he’s managed to inadvertently get Wessex to reveal something about her that she might not usually put out there. It’s a rare occurrence. She looks a bit surprised when he finishes, but mostly at herself. There’s a brief pause. “Ah, for everyone else in Halo… yes. Between the cold and the snow, no one is leaving. But I don’t need the portals to travel.” And there it is. There’s probably some residual guilt about it, but only because he’s so new to Caido, and then he goes and gets himself trapped here for his first season. What are the odds?
And it might be, because he’s managed to inadvertently get Wessex to reveal something about her that she might not usually put out there. It’s a rare occurrence. She looks a bit surprised when he finishes, but mostly at herself. There’s a brief pause. “Ah, for everyone else in Halo… yes. Between the cold and the snow, no one is leaving. But I don’t need the portals to travel.” And there it is. There’s probably some residual guilt about it, but only because he’s so new to Caido, and then he goes and gets himself trapped here for his first season. What are the odds?
