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[b][i]He paused for a moment before looking up, wiping his eye before speaking.[/i][/b] "Hey."
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"You alright, bud?" She asked, kindly.
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"Yeah, its good." [b][i]He said, an obvious lie.[/i][/b] "Nothing others need to trouble themselves with."
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"You just wiped away tears, so I'm calling bulls**t." She adjusted the hood of her cloak. "So... what's bugging you?"
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[b][i]He paused, before speaking.[/i][/b] "Before all this, I was in the military. Seven years a soldier, a damn good one too. We were sent on a mission one day, take out an enemy general deep in their territory. It was an ambush..."
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"I didn't go that well, I presume."
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"No." [b][i]Seemed to be all he could muster out for a deal of time. He continued.[/i][/b] "I just... I can't forget that day. I have dreams about it, I'm stuck there: I can't do anything to stop t or look away. I just relive it..."
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"What happened that day, then?" She asked.
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"I-I saw my squad decimated, Tyr's bike beginning to slow, his body riddled with bolts. I-I couldn't stop it. I couldn't save any of them, all I could do was watch..." [b][i]He said, each world sounding like it pained him to say greatly[/i][/b]
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"I.... that's pretty deep." Was all the Huntress could say.
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"And the memory comes back, and still I can't do anything to stop it. I just feel it happen all again..."
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"You need to see a therapist..."
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"If I did I'd be hauled back home and they'd lock me in a lab because of the abilities I have."
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"Actually, I know a therapist who won't arrest you, and lock you in a lab," she said, smirking under her helmet.
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"And who would that be all the way out here?"
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"Alright, I'll lead you to him," she told him. She stood up.
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"Thanks." [b][i]He said, standing. He was shaky as he walked, completely rattled[/i][/b]