A little too much

[queenofpawns.livejournal.com]

[appears on the Plane, a bit winded and disheveled]

No matter how many times I see, the sight is never any better...

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[brigadiertardis.livejournal.com]

What sight is that, child?

[queenofpawns.livejournal.com]

Fallen soldiers.

[brigadiertardis.livejournal.com]

A battle...?

[queenofpawns.livejournal.com]

There are always battles. They draw nearer still, day by day. I am tired of people dying.

[brigadiertardis.livejournal.com]

Is there nowhere you can go to hide from them?

[queenofpawns.livejournal.com]

This place is the best I have as of yet. My captor attempts to shield me, but I believe it is for his own gain and not my own.

[brigadiertardis.livejournal.com]

Captor...? A prisoner of war, then?

[queenofpawns.livejournal.com]

[nods] Although my circumstances are somewhat better than others.

[brigadiertardis.livejournal.com]

But you are unhappy.

[queenofpawns.livejournal.com]

Happiness is irrelevent in a war.

[brigadiertardis.livejournal.com]

Happiness is all one can cling to in the midst of it.

[queenofpawns.livejournal.com]

Happiness cannot exist in the midst of it. Not when betrayal and horrors overtake family and friendships.

[brigadiertardis.livejournal.com]

But that is when you need it most, lest you lose yourself.

[queenofpawns.livejournal.com]

Perhaps that is the fate left to all of us. I pray it is not, yet it is hard to think otherwise.

[brigadiertardis.livejournal.com]

[frowns] Perhaps. I would rather not think in such a way, however.

[queenofpawns.livejournal.com]

I would rather not as well. We are not all allowed such luxury.

[brigadiertardis.livejournal.com]

So it would seem.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[frowns] What happened?

[queenofpawns.livejournal.com]

A war that has gone on far too long.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry.

[queenofpawns.livejournal.com]

As am I.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

Was there an attack?

[queenofpawns.livejournal.com]

A scouting party that found itself too close to the enemy, I believe. The scuffle did not last long, at any rate.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[nods slightly, silent for a moment, then says] Have things improved at all?

[queenofpawns.livejournal.com]

I...am not certain. It is flustering not to know.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

Could you ask your captor?

[queenofpawns.livejournal.com]

I could, although I cannot guarantee he will answer. Not am I certain I can trust any answer I would receive.

But I shall try.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

A possibly false answer is better than no answer.