Elena
when life knocks you down
calmly get back up
calmly get back up
For the moment, at least, Morgan need not fear reprimands. Elena still felt a bit like she was going to fall. Like the ice had cracked beneath her, threatening to drop her into deadly waters. She looked up as Morgan spoke, straightening automatically. Then, just as quickly, her weariness forced her to slump again.
"I'm uninjured," came the rough-voiced and tired reply. It was a response only to the most obvious part of the question and left a massive volume of other answers unspoken. Then again, some of those would be obvious. After all, was anyone really 'all right' after what had just happened? Snowcloak wasn't so massive a settlement that there could be a single citizen completely unaffected.
She wrapped both hands around her own mug, eyes sweeping what she could see of the soldier's body in a gesture not unlike the one Morgan had given her a few seconds before. "What about you, Captain?" Elena didn't know the other well, had only seen her in passing since Elena herself had retired. But she'd heard stories, from the Shields who knew them both.
Shields who... were now dead.
"I'm uninjured," came the rough-voiced and tired reply. It was a response only to the most obvious part of the question and left a massive volume of other answers unspoken. Then again, some of those would be obvious. After all, was anyone really 'all right' after what had just happened? Snowcloak wasn't so massive a settlement that there could be a single citizen completely unaffected.
She wrapped both hands around her own mug, eyes sweeping what she could see of the soldier's body in a gesture not unlike the one Morgan had given her a few seconds before. "What about you, Captain?" Elena didn't know the other well, had only seen her in passing since Elena herself had retired. But she'd heard stories, from the Shields who knew them both.
Shields who... were now dead.
smile and very politely say
"you hit like a bitch"
"you hit like a bitch"
