Elena
when life knocks you down
calmly get back up
calmly get back up
Ah, now that was a tone and expression Elena knew well. Especially now, with so many lives upturned and no answers that actually helped anyone.
She wasn't expecting much of an answer. Not with the night the Captain had had, the weight that had to be sitting on her shoulders. With as stretched thin as the tanner was feeling, she had been one of the crowd. Morgan had been on the front lines.
A point that was made when she did answer, expressing just how tired she was... and why. Elena's own expression tensed, lips pressed hard together, sorrow a hard knot in her chest. "No. Not like this," Elena agreed, quiet and not nearly as steady as she wanted it to be. "Unlucky encounters on the tundra, yes, but never anything that attacked the Citadel." They were too big a bite for most of what roamed the icy wastes. Too well-fortified. Or so she would have been certain until now.
"I had friends among the guards. It will be a long time before I forget this. Any of it." The pain wasn't as sharp as the death of her spouse, but that might just be because she was still more than a little in shock. Dark eyes focused on Morgan, tired but, for the moment sure. "I can't and won't speak for others, but... I do not blame you for their deaths, Captain."
She wasn't expecting much of an answer. Not with the night the Captain had had, the weight that had to be sitting on her shoulders. With as stretched thin as the tanner was feeling, she had been one of the crowd. Morgan had been on the front lines.
A point that was made when she did answer, expressing just how tired she was... and why. Elena's own expression tensed, lips pressed hard together, sorrow a hard knot in her chest. "No. Not like this," Elena agreed, quiet and not nearly as steady as she wanted it to be. "Unlucky encounters on the tundra, yes, but never anything that attacked the Citadel." They were too big a bite for most of what roamed the icy wastes. Too well-fortified. Or so she would have been certain until now.
"I had friends among the guards. It will be a long time before I forget this. Any of it." The pain wasn't as sharp as the death of her spouse, but that might just be because she was still more than a little in shock. Dark eyes focused on Morgan, tired but, for the moment sure. "I can't and won't speak for others, but... I do not blame you for their deaths, Captain."
smile and very politely say
"you hit like a bitch"
"you hit like a bitch"
