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[ So the cavern collapsed and it was all really scary, especially for the likes of Alayne who's had more scramble than spring in her step when it comes to perilous situations. She'd almost lost Lady in the collapse, but the Doctor had salvaged her when she'd run off, leaving Alayne no choice but to scrabble, tear-stained, to surface with little Nigredo in tow.

Now that things are settled, her thoughts turn to those should ask after. The Master Chief is gone and she feels that loss poignantly but she tries not to flounder. ]

Ranger Hansen, are you still with us?

surprised?

Is Max all right?

[ Because: priorities. ]

were both dandy

[ Sarcasm detected. ]

And your father?

not dead or maimed

hows lady

Alive but not unscathed.
The rocks were no place for a direwolf.
She is lucky to have escaped that terrible place.

she got help?

The Doctor brought her to me, after.
I should not have left her but there were others, smaller and more afraid, in my charge.

you did what you had to and counted on her to get out alive

Would ever you leave Max?

i already did

Max wasn't the one who was meant to die.

does that make his fate better

[ She has to think about that. ]

Some of us choose to live, at any cost.
Forget honor, forget yourself, so long as you survive — that is what the shrewd teachers teach.

But I no longer know whether living is best, if it means you become a shadow of yourself.
Or perhaps I should speak of hope instead.
Perhaps not everyone is destined to be a miserable creature.

[ A little dark, even for Alayne. Losing Master Chief has added to her bitterness. ]

max is alive and im not

he has to go home someday

What if you could go somewhere else?
Somewhere different, a place where you could live again and have a different life?

im not good for any other kind of life

Surely, you can't know that for certain.

i do

It isn't as if you've tried.
You've said so yourself.

dont wanna try

Why not?

this is what im good at
and being a jaeger pilot was all i was ever gonna be

But you've lived that life already.
You saw what you needed to do, done.
This is your opportunity to live a new one for yourself.

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