destinymaker: (36 smile; angst)
Gilbert Durandal ([personal profile] destinymaker) wrote in [personal profile] eschatological 2024-02-26 01:19 am (UTC)

[ The same gesture as on the train, unmistakable and clear. It is just as effective in throwing Gil off his game as it was then, if not more so. There's a beat where his expression goes blank, like he hasn't quite sorted out what face to make here. What he wants for the future is a jumble now, compared to the clarity of the Destiny Plan that he's spent decades honing, but... ]

Not enough.

[ The blank melts away into a thin smile, melancholy and self-ironic. ]

I'll leave the living to the living, and I'm certainly not planning to make an afterlife that would make Rey sad.

[ He is still waiting for him, thinking he might arrive on the next train. What kind of expression would he greet him with? It's difficult to imagine. ]

But I'm myself, and I cannot let an imperfect world remain as is. This afterlife isn't sustainable - you know it, I know it, and surely so does Niesha.

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