please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere
Tobi can’t help but laugh at that. “You sound just like the rest of the dragoons. I swear that must be a prerequisite for joining, that when you’re told to be careful, you feel compelled to do just the opposite.”
Looking down at her stomach and running a hand over her belly, Tobi nods. “A boy.” She answers in almost a smile, as if it were somehow too precious a thing to be said loudly. Raising a brow until she realized the context of what Seren meant, Tobi nodded. “That is something...I have quite literally never thought of before.” She admits with a chuckle. It wasn’t as though the gods ever appeared in her clinic needing aid or healing. “In a way yes, but also...this was how Rae designed us. I suppose Vi wouldn’t keep sparking us into life if it wasn’t a design he thought worthy of it.”
Reaching for a device that looked like an overly large pen, Tobi adjusts Seren’s arm that she might begin. Light bloomed from the tip, and where it touched the open wounds the skin pulled itself back together. Seren’s question doesn’t change Tobi’s expression, focused as she is on her work, but she does sigh softly. “I think the big picture is....to remove the ascended from the world.” Tobi answers in a soft voice. “They are not of Rae’s creating, and...I think if you think of our world as something made by the gods, they can do whatever they like. Fair doesn’t have to come into it. The asked the Voice to stop once, and then forced her to. Now she is back again.” It was easy to think of it that way, if you ignored the lives purportedly at risk.
Looking down at her stomach and running a hand over her belly, Tobi nods. “A boy.” She answers in almost a smile, as if it were somehow too precious a thing to be said loudly. Raising a brow until she realized the context of what Seren meant, Tobi nodded. “That is something...I have quite literally never thought of before.” She admits with a chuckle. It wasn’t as though the gods ever appeared in her clinic needing aid or healing. “In a way yes, but also...this was how Rae designed us. I suppose Vi wouldn’t keep sparking us into life if it wasn’t a design he thought worthy of it.”
Reaching for a device that looked like an overly large pen, Tobi adjusts Seren’s arm that she might begin. Light bloomed from the tip, and where it touched the open wounds the skin pulled itself back together. Seren’s question doesn’t change Tobi’s expression, focused as she is on her work, but she does sigh softly. “I think the big picture is....to remove the ascended from the world.” Tobi answers in a soft voice. “They are not of Rae’s creating, and...I think if you think of our world as something made by the gods, they can do whatever they like. Fair doesn’t have to come into it. The asked the Voice to stop once, and then forced her to. Now she is back again.” It was easy to think of it that way, if you ignored the lives purportedly at risk.
October
