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[When the Soleares returns it just half-lands, half-crashes. The kind of damaged inflicted on it will do that. But the damage to the AS is nothing compared to what its pilot just went through.]
Albhard you...
... Twice I thought I saw you die... so why...
[The strong face she had managed before finally gives way to unapologetic sobbing.]
Albhard you...
... Twice I thought I saw you die... so why...
[The strong face she had managed before finally gives way to unapologetic sobbing.]
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She approaches the sobbing wreck, eyes closed and a somber expression on her face.]
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Yes..?
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Your comrade's heroism will live on in our memory.
[She does not seem very confident while saying this, though.]
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Enough of Team Jelba's already died!
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[This dramatic feeling... it is not unfamiliar to Sielje. This is happening again.]
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I am sorry...
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And we were going to pay them back...! That masked woman and everyone else there!
Have you ever lost your family? Most of your family... all in the blink of an eye?
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Yes.
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Yes.
[And yet Sielje cannot offer solace of any way. Suddenly she wants to hide somewhere.]
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... And when do you think it'll be 'certain' for me?
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If it is any consolation, Albhard Bailaran died a hero. Without his sacrifice, the Balmarian aces would have caused many more casualties on the battlefield before being stopped.
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... When is fate going to decide to stop stringing me along and finally stop the drawn-out death of Team Jlba?!
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...You are the last one, Selena Recital. You, and Elma.
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... The fugitive that Ephesus spoke of.
There has to be something to it.
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They certainly knew who he was well enough though... so why be so vague about this "fugitive" if they were right there for everyone to see?
[But that still didn't answer Cobray's behavior at the end...]
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...Unless there is another...
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I... I thought I'd lost him for good! And then to show up again... Why didn't he bother ejecting? Why didn't he put the cockpit or even just himself in that Boost Knuckle?!?
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But to see him alive again... only to watch him die a third time...
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...if you want someone to blame then blame me, not the person who gave up his life to save everyone there.
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... Lo siento. There's plenty of things I... am just fed up about right now.
Can't force myself to count you among them.
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[Willis closes his eyes for a moment, trying to think of the right words to say.]
Then...try not to don't blame Albhard or anyone else that was there for their decisions either.
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I'm not going to blame Albhard for wanting his death to have meaning. But he was forced to do that by the Balmarians, the same lot who killed off the rest of us.
And I'm not going to let them keep getting their way.
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[Calvin's own Genoace made its own landing not too long after. He was still shaky from the engagement but he wanted to help. That being said he felt his words flee from him as he got closer.]
I'm sorry...
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...
[Internally he debates his next words... this may make it worse... but it may help her as well.]
... If your positions were exchanged... would you have done the same? Or let him risk being caught up in what would happen next trying to save you?
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[She flinches a bit at Calvin's stupidity.]
I wouldn't have just settled for dying there! There's still people I need to avenge, people Albhard and I were going to avenge together!
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Nobody would have settled for it. And everybody would have some reason to want to get out alive. But think. You're an information specialist aren't you? Is he the sort of person to just give up that easily in any other moment? Correlate. Look at everything you know and think it through.
[Its all Calvin could do to hope he didn't just trip up again.]
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I don't want to have to think about that! I want him to not have died!
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[Calvin simply takes the hit. He probably should just quit while he's ahead.]
...Alright.... I get it.
[With nothing more to be said he leaves, unable to do anything else aside from merely making things worse.]