She snorts. It's not that she doesn't appreciate his distance on the subject, or the honesty. He really can't know, and she won't explain enough of her world to let anyone really agree that what she and the rest were doing was the best answer. What is best, anyway? It's relative to where any one person stood.
"Is that something you remind Ken about?" She looks back to Hide, pulling her attention in from where it had wandered to in watching the city pass by. One more stop and they'll be walking again. "This present is a lot more precious than the past no one can change. Especially here... when there's even less of a guarantee on how long we'll be anything on this Earth."
Her tone of voice is more contemplative, but she doesn't seem to mind that reality. Annie means it when she says it's precious. What is gained or lost here is only gained or lost here. It touches nothing else.
It's worth finding something in all this overwhelming chaos to hold on to for herself. She's selfish enough to have been doing that all along, after all.
"Guess you could say we agree," she says, wondering at what point this will touch on what is it about this empire that needs to be destroyed? She can say in limited ways. Has said, to Wally, before. But only when asked. Annie only offers what she's asked for.
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"Is that something you remind Ken about?" She looks back to Hide, pulling her attention in from where it had wandered to in watching the city pass by. One more stop and they'll be walking again. "This present is a lot more precious than the past no one can change. Especially here... when there's even less of a guarantee on how long we'll be anything on this Earth."
Her tone of voice is more contemplative, but she doesn't seem to mind that reality. Annie means it when she says it's precious. What is gained or lost here is only gained or lost here. It touches nothing else.
It's worth finding something in all this overwhelming chaos to hold on to for herself. She's selfish enough to have been doing that all along, after all.
"Guess you could say we agree," she says, wondering at what point this will touch on what is it about this empire that needs to be destroyed? She can say in limited ways. Has said, to Wally, before. But only when asked. Annie only offers what she's asked for.