Through the Living Hope

Cye set Aela on a bed and covered her in blankets. Lissy sat next to her on the bed and held her hand.

“I mean, if he is. We don’t have any evidence, but if it ends up being him.”

He walked over to it. @echo74 @Kino @Through The Living Glass @Hawks @Bird Furious

He asked around for a place for the group to stay.

“Yeah. But if it is him, everyone will realize he shifted the blame.”

“Shifting the blame…” she muttered.

“At this point, I’m trying not to think about it. Everyone in general engineering did their [darned]est on this project.” “Who?”

Cye carried Aela off the train and into the fields. Lissy held one of her hands. “I stayed in a dorm of some kind last night. I’m sure we can find her a bed.” Lissy nodded a bit.

“It’s going.”

The engineering manager was there as well.

Lissy was about to wake Aela, but Cye stopped her. "I can carry her. She's exhausted, and this rest is good for her." "But- I-" "I'm not going to take her from you or anything. You can still hold her hand or something if you want. But if I take her, she can rest off whatever you all got drugged with." Lissy opened her mouth to protest, but couldn't think of anything to say, so she nodded. Cye gently lifted Aela, one arm under her knees and the other behind her back. Lissy took her hand. @Through The Living Glass

"Some people are taken." "Hey, it's okay." He put a hand on her shoulder. "There's always someone. New connections can be forged, if you allow yourself to make them."

"Why are you a slave?" "I've always thought it sounded terrible. I mean, sure, you never die yourself. But you have to sit around as the people you care about die and there's nothing you can do to help them, and if you didn't die you'd never get to see them again in whatever comes next. I don't think I could handle the pain of that."

"Why?" Lissy asked Lee. "Immortality was appealing to you?"

She nodded solemnly.

"Yeah. I'm grateful that EMOS is going to protect us."

"Yeah. Chances are for a lot of these suits winning." Her hand went to her forehead.

"Yeah, I guess so."

"The engineering department."

"That's unfortunate." She sighed. "My department's been getting so much backlash it's physically exhausting..."

“Did you have something in mind?”

She nodded. “Yeah. Anyways, was that what you wanted to see me about?”