[There was the barest of twitches when she mentioned children, something small and slight as his eyes snapped over to her. Children. Yeah, they were the ones suffering the most, weren’t they? And they didn’t ask for this shit, they didn’t ask for a war or to be oppressed or dying. They didn’t ask to be buried in the frozen ground.]
Believe what you want; that’s on you.
[But she wasn’t wrong either. Cold and hungry, what could--]
Look, who’s to say what would happen if you folks left, huh? How can you guess that things wouldn’t get better or that they would be able to feed these folks instead of dropping all their shit into war? I mean… [He waved one arm, waved it at this place around them, waved it while looking up at the sky.]
You don’t know the future. They could wind up better than you guys in another twenty years or something because they have the choice to do it.
And shit. [His brow furrowed a little because the real question was--] Why is this so important to your side? Like, seriously? If these folks don’t want it, why not just say ‘fuck it’ and go? What’s in it for the Cetagandans, because I’m pretty sure they’re not doing it out of the goodness of their heart either.
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[There was the barest of twitches when she mentioned children, something small and slight as his eyes snapped over to her. Children. Yeah, they were the ones suffering the most, weren’t they? And they didn’t ask for this shit, they didn’t ask for a war or to be oppressed or dying. They didn’t ask to be buried in the frozen ground.]
Believe what you want; that’s on you.
[But she wasn’t wrong either. Cold and hungry, what could--]
Look, who’s to say what would happen if you folks left, huh? How can you guess that things wouldn’t get better or that they would be able to feed these folks instead of dropping all their shit into war? I mean… [He waved one arm, waved it at this place around them, waved it while looking up at the sky.]
You don’t know the future. They could wind up better than you guys in another twenty years or something because they have the choice to do it.
And shit. [His brow furrowed a little because the real question was--] Why is this so important to your side? Like, seriously? If these folks don’t want it, why not just say ‘fuck it’ and go? What’s in it for the Cetagandans, because I’m pretty sure they’re not doing it out of the goodness of their heart either.