[HE started pulling out the things he needed, various colors and sizes of bottles. Some of them were clearly more for flavor than alcohol content, but some of them held fancy labels and were made of heavy glass, the stronger stuff to give what Riona needed.
His hand's movement slowed with her words, nearly coming to a stop as she unknowingly put into words exactly why Johnny needed to keep focused on something more than thoughts and memories.
But then he was back into the swing of it as he started to whip up her next drink.]
Ah...then you're from the Fleet as well. I understand, it can be very difficult. Unfortunately, it tends to follow along the norm of places like this...places that take people.
[Show them something nicer, kinder, give them a chance to find a family better and brighter than you could have ever hoped for, only for all of it to be gone in one second of opening your eyes to something unfamiliar.]
It won't get easier, not if you lived through it centuries more. [He finished her drink, a red thing with flecks of gold shimmering through it and a crazy swirly straw he dug out of some package forgotten in the bar. Something to maybe bring a little light into her world.]
The best thing to do is hang on to the memories, not try to drown them.
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[HE started pulling out the things he needed, various colors and sizes of bottles. Some of them were clearly more for flavor than alcohol content, but some of them held fancy labels and were made of heavy glass, the stronger stuff to give what Riona needed.
His hand's movement slowed with her words, nearly coming to a stop as she unknowingly put into words exactly why Johnny needed to keep focused on something more than thoughts and memories.
But then he was back into the swing of it as he started to whip up her next drink.]
Ah...then you're from the Fleet as well. I understand, it can be very difficult. Unfortunately, it tends to follow along the norm of places like this...places that take people.
[Show them something nicer, kinder, give them a chance to find a family better and brighter than you could have ever hoped for, only for all of it to be gone in one second of opening your eyes to something unfamiliar.]
It won't get easier, not if you lived through it centuries more. [He finished her drink, a red thing with flecks of gold shimmering through it and a crazy swirly straw he dug out of some package forgotten in the bar. Something to maybe bring a little light into her world.]
The best thing to do is hang on to the memories, not try to drown them.