flameandpassion: (Rei: The battered warrior.)
Hino Rei ([personal profile] flameandpassion) wrote 2012-01-12 05:32 pm (UTC)

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[It's the expression that causes her to freeze, any anger and frustration dissipating in an instant to just stare at her friend through the PCD connection.

The problem isn't so much that Rei felt as if she had to do this alone. It's that she knew she had to. There was no loneliness in her decision, no isolation, no dislike -- it was that Usagi could not handle the reality that is Adstringendum and Rei had to fix it. That was her job, as a friend, and as a senshi -- to protect Usagi. And if she could fix Adstringendum, she could do that -- fix the murder and bloodshed and people going home because Usagi could not handle the harsh reality that this world was horrible and it was not their own and that was it.

Lashing out at Usagi certainly isn't going to help. But there's nothing else to be said. She can't take it back -- because what Rei said was true. The world is broken. It cannot be fixed. That was the end of that story.

She slumps against the wall slightly, exhaling shakily, not looking at the PCD anymore.]


It's --

[She sucks in a breath.]

I just -- I need to go to sleep.

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