[He lowered the thermos and motioned to the men on the field.]
It diminishes their fear. They know they might fall on the field, but they have reassurance, in some small part, that their death will not be in vain. They can come back, try again, keep pushing forward.
[Even if it wasn't entirely clean - even if the act of dying itself wasn't clean and the aftermath only that much worse, it meant a second chance.]
And at least we come back. Or some of us will.
[He'd heard what had happened on the last mission. Even if it was their enemy, there was something terribly cruel about the decision. It garnered Luceti favour, but at the cost of sending hundreds of people into an endless, dark dream for hundreds of years. Eventually they would wake, they would find their world changed. Being pulled from time could be the worst torture inflicted upon a person, and Souji found the entire affair distasteful.]
Action-- October 13
[He lowered the thermos and motioned to the men on the field.]
It diminishes their fear. They know they might fall on the field, but they have reassurance, in some small part, that their death will not be in vain. They can come back, try again, keep pushing forward.
[Even if it wasn't entirely clean - even if the act of dying itself wasn't clean and the aftermath only that much worse, it meant a second chance.]
And at least we come back. Or some of us will.
[He'd heard what had happened on the last mission. Even if it was their enemy, there was something terribly cruel about the decision. It garnered Luceti favour, but at the cost of sending hundreds of people into an endless, dark dream for hundreds of years. Eventually they would wake, they would find their world changed. Being pulled from time could be the worst torture inflicted upon a person, and Souji found the entire affair distasteful.]