Maybe. I don't plan on stopping until I can't go on any longer.
[ and it's as close to an admission as it would ever get— and he's not sure why he would give it to this girl instead of anyone else. maybe because his rangers couldn't know; because to them he's a leader, the marshall, the new fixed point. maybe because they have to face the reality that while Mako and Raleigh survived, they had each other, and Herc came from an era where you didn't retire. because to his son it'll look like weakness. because he's a soldier to everyone else.
Alayne, she isn't precisely safe, but she's excused from the shape everyone else would fill around Herc. he knows he's said too much, even in that. he won't visit it again. he's not sure if he feels any better, seeing it written down, instead of just in his head. ]
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I don't plan on stopping until I can't go on any longer.
[ and it's as close to an admission as it would ever get— and he's not sure why he would give it to this girl instead of anyone else. maybe because his rangers couldn't know; because to them he's a leader, the marshall, the new fixed point. maybe because they have to face the reality that while Mako and Raleigh survived, they had each other, and Herc came from an era where you didn't retire. because to his son it'll look like weakness. because he's a soldier to everyone else.
Alayne, she isn't precisely safe, but she's excused from the shape everyone else would fill around Herc. he knows he's said too much, even in that. he won't visit it again. he's not sure if he feels any better, seeing it written down, instead of just in his head. ]