[ the wind is punctuated by her voice, and once it ends the sentence a pregnant pause follows it again. Herc lets himself think on it, for a moment; how many times he'd heard fellow soldiers talk about the end. wives and kids to go back to, people that didn't live and breath and sweat the PPDC. when he was in the Air Force, he joined in on those topics of discussion. that he had a boy and he was with his beautiful wife and the kid was learning how to bake. his birthday was coming. that he was going to retire and go back to surfing.
when Jaegers came into the equation, he kept his mouth shut when the conversation came up.
and maybe that's why he answers her honestly: because yeah, he's a marshall now, but he hasn't been for most of his life. he's always been one of the boys, one of the rangers, one of those out there fighting and not calling the shots. putting his life on the line, not watching others do it for him. ]
Nah. [ he answers, and his voice is low and coarse, like he hasn't used it for a while, when in truth it's half to do with his sleep habits. ] Pilots don't retire.
[ he'd heard it somewhere, some kind of lilting rhyme about kaiju getting you first. ]
( i x : d 1 : late night )
when Jaegers came into the equation, he kept his mouth shut when the conversation came up.
and maybe that's why he answers her honestly: because yeah, he's a marshall now, but he hasn't been for most of his life. he's always been one of the boys, one of the rangers, one of those out there fighting and not calling the shots. putting his life on the line, not watching others do it for him.
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Nah. [ he answers, and his voice is low and coarse, like he hasn't used it for a while, when in truth it's half to do with his sleep habits. ] Pilots don't retire.
[ he'd heard it somewhere, some kind of lilting rhyme about kaiju getting you first. ]