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[personal profile] warandpeace 2017-08-02 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
It's a terrifying situation. Words don't do it justice. Being trapped in a bottleneck with no way out.

I don't think anyone will have a better answer.


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[personal profile] warandpeace 2017-08-02 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I use allies to distract the person on the bridge. Unless, of course, the person on the bridge made their own deal with them.

[Like some people he knows.]

If they're someone I care about and can't get rid of them with non-lethal means, then I throw them over and hope they make it.

Last resort, I'd want to just tell them to back off, blow up the bridge, and make my own way across somewhere else.
[Kaz likes being able to make his own bridges.]

I'm pretty sure I'd want to ask them why I was less important to them than their side of the bridge.
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[personal profile] warandpeace 2017-08-03 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
That might be true, but it's worth trying.

[What's the point of defeating an enemy if you lose everything you love along the way? The enemy is hardly worth it.]

Too bad we don't get chances to cross bridges twice.

[No save scumming for them, sadly.]
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[personal profile] warandpeace 2017-08-03 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
[A few startling revelations short and a universe away, Kazuhira Miller would like nothing more than if John had died alongside his mentor.]

[But this is here and this is now, a multitude of events and actual discussions between them as sane rational individuals later, and it's lent him a new perspective. He doesn't want this man to die, or worse. To fade and wither until death is a relief.]

For what it's worth, I think you made every choice to the best of your ability and the resources you had. And I'm saying that as an experienced base commander and soldier.

[Not some kid fresh out of the JSDF in the jungle. Not a silly playboy. He means it with a knowledgeable eye. But in a state of grief, it's probably not worth much.]

Is Ocelot there?

[He's at odds with the guy, but he doesn't want John to be alone right now.]
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[personal profile] warandpeace 2017-08-03 10:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Sometimes there's the 'right' choice, and sometimes there's the choice that says you have very few options.]

[He also thinks, from experience, that John shouldn't be alone right now, but there's not much he can do about that from here.]

The weather gets difficult out there. Is it being decent at the moment?
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[personal profile] warandpeace 2017-08-04 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Joy seemed to like it when she was out there. Is she with you?

[Please let him have taken Joy, because at least she can help. Dogs help.]
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[personal profile] warandpeace 2017-08-04 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
That's good.

I've been there for some pretty rough times, and since we got another chance, I'd like to be there for you again.


[Kaz is very used to people not wanting to put up with him as a miserable bastard. He doesn't want to leave John with that.]

So don't be afraid to ask for it, alright?
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[personal profile] warandpeace 2017-08-04 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
Alright.

[And all he can do is hope. Or so he tells himself. He doesn't want to go to Ahab and ask him to go because he knows this knowledge is extremely hard on him.]

[But he doesn't want to leave John alone out there, either. A dog helps. But a dog still isn't a person.]

[So after a few beats.]

I still have that first aid kit. Where are you?

[Because this post is about as close to asking for help as he could get.]
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[personal profile] warandpeace 2017-08-04 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
[He's trying to protect his pride, okay!]

John, please. A narrower range.

Please.
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[personal profile] warandpeace 2017-08-04 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
[He tries to send a couple more, before physically shaking the TAB like he's wringing his damned stubborn neck. There's a decent period of silence where he doesn't get any messages before receiving a single file.]

ATTACHED: REC001.mp3

[It sounds like it was played in a room with a slight echo to it, as though he just recorded it. After that, though, he leaves him alone.]