I'll leave my love hidden in the sun
"Well, yes, because you should", Seren agreed, more blunt than soothing. "They caught you by surprise, and there's nothing that says the same tactic wouldn't work on Morgan. The difference is that you and Hotaru have made so many enemies that I don't know where you would find anyone willing to back you up. So really, you are worse than back to the beginning." She made a wide sweeping gesture, agitated with mounting frustration.
"But as you say, you are not a machine. And you don't have allies. So rest. Do what you need to do. And let's hope that no one else will move before you are ready to. You would not want Stormbreak ruling over Halo, I promise you that. Morgan is infinitely better than the fanatics of the Order." But perhaps that was one of the few options that still remained. Not to Deimos, or Hotaru... but perhaps Noah. The one person in all of this with enough power to act and some goodwill still intact. If Stormbreak became the only option to keep Halo from the Voice...
Seren had not come here to argue either, but now that it was happening she didn't shy away from it. Consequences were mounting up over the heads of herself and her friends, and not for the first time did she rage against the idiocy of their past actions. Petty revenge seemed about to cost them an entire region, and Deimos kept talking like it was a matter of time to regain trust, honor and scarred reputations.
Another frustrated gesture painted arcs in the air at the question of communication, tense hands that ached with the need to do something and felt empty with her own powerlessness. "I don't know! You're the one who can make anything - surely you could come up with something that would let people speak over vast distances.
"And if I had been hurt, or captured... I would have endured it, and expected you to do the most of the situation. I am more than a convenient warp gate - you could have used my situation to rally my father, my mother and every person who has ever whispered a prayer to the stars to your cause." That he looked at her and saw a person in need of protecting was simultaneously gratifying and immensely annoying. It was true that Seren couldn't achieve much on the battlefield... But that was not all a demigod, Safrin's daughter, was good for.
"But as you say, you are not a machine. And you don't have allies. So rest. Do what you need to do. And let's hope that no one else will move before you are ready to. You would not want Stormbreak ruling over Halo, I promise you that. Morgan is infinitely better than the fanatics of the Order." But perhaps that was one of the few options that still remained. Not to Deimos, or Hotaru... but perhaps Noah. The one person in all of this with enough power to act and some goodwill still intact. If Stormbreak became the only option to keep Halo from the Voice...
Seren had not come here to argue either, but now that it was happening she didn't shy away from it. Consequences were mounting up over the heads of herself and her friends, and not for the first time did she rage against the idiocy of their past actions. Petty revenge seemed about to cost them an entire region, and Deimos kept talking like it was a matter of time to regain trust, honor and scarred reputations.
Another frustrated gesture painted arcs in the air at the question of communication, tense hands that ached with the need to do something and felt empty with her own powerlessness. "I don't know! You're the one who can make anything - surely you could come up with something that would let people speak over vast distances.
"And if I had been hurt, or captured... I would have endured it, and expected you to do the most of the situation. I am more than a convenient warp gate - you could have used my situation to rally my father, my mother and every person who has ever whispered a prayer to the stars to your cause." That he looked at her and saw a person in need of protecting was simultaneously gratifying and immensely annoying. It was true that Seren couldn't achieve much on the battlefield... But that was not all a demigod, Safrin's daughter, was good for.
For when the darkness comes
SEREN
