[Would Ruka care? Probably not. She's been pretty abrasive on the network, so maybe it's no surprise that she thinks that way, but he wants to preserve her privacy as much as possible. Jaime doesn't say much more for a moment, letting the analogy settle on his shoulders. They're not soldiers here, and they don't lose people falling in battle.
Jaime thinks that, in a way, that would be easier than losing people to the unknowable expanse of space and time, but he knows that's an awful way of looking at things. More than that, though, it's wrong. He thinks back to what Traci told him, how once he started losing people, he started going a little funny.
He hopes that's not already happening. Jaime drags a crate over with his foot and sits down on it lightly, knees pressed close together.]
Apparently I have some of that headed my way too, [he says, though he doesn't say it with much feeling, like it's just a statement of fact.] So what side are you on? How do you deal with it?
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[Would Ruka care? Probably not. She's been pretty abrasive on the network, so maybe it's no surprise that she thinks that way, but he wants to preserve her privacy as much as possible. Jaime doesn't say much more for a moment, letting the analogy settle on his shoulders. They're not soldiers here, and they don't lose people falling in battle.
Jaime thinks that, in a way, that would be easier than losing people to the unknowable expanse of space and time, but he knows that's an awful way of looking at things. More than that, though, it's wrong. He thinks back to what Traci told him, how once he started losing people, he started going a little funny.
He hopes that's not already happening. Jaime drags a crate over with his foot and sits down on it lightly, knees pressed close together.]
Apparently I have some of that headed my way too, [he says, though he doesn't say it with much feeling, like it's just a statement of fact.] So what side are you on? How do you deal with it?