Adios

[prismphantom]

[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.]

Comments

[prismphantom]

[Realizations. Funny thing about that.]

... And when do you think it'll be 'certain' for me?

[abugslife]

The realization that your friend is dead, and there is no way to cheat it? It is now. This is why you feel this way.

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.

[prismphantom]

I wasn't meaning that, I was meaning...

... When is fate going to decide to stop stringing me along and finally stop the drawn-out death of Team Jlba?!

[abugslife]

It was not fate. It was the hands of the enemy that did it.

...You are the last one, Selena Recital. You, and Elma.

[prismphantom]

[Indeed she is... and there's a long pause. Long enough that Heph might even think Selena's done with talking for now, until...]

... The fugitive that Ephesus spoke of.

There has to be something to it.

[abugslife]

It is Cobray Gordon. I am sure of it. And he was acting weird during the battle, right at the end.

[prismphantom]

Maybe, maybe not...

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...]

[abugslife]

Cobray fits the descriptors. And this would not be the first time the Balmarians are acting condescending towards "inferior" species.

...Unless there is another...