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Nephrite Curtiss

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Asch...

[Why are they doing this over the phone? Why would anyone think this would be easier at a distance, where he can hear the emotion but not reach out to soothe it?]

You're not sacrificing anything. You might be getting a little push out of the nest, but I have every confidence that you'll figure out your feathers on the way down. And as I said...if you find your way back, I'll have no complaints.

[But the rest of it...]

As for why it has to be you...hah. Do you know, I was certain one day, no matter whether I pushed or not, eventually there would come a time when you were given orders you couldn't bear to obey. The way the old Order was run would make it an inevitability, if you grew up to be anything like the young man I remembered from another life. To be honest, I was afraid you'd make that choice and not give me the chance to save you from it.

[He sounds faintly amused, as if he's not talking about running for both their lives.] I had plans in place. If that had been what happened, it would have been both of us, I would never have sent you on the run all by yourself. Either we would both make it out, or...well. I would do everything under my power, anyway.

But then, before I needed those plans, the rebellion happened, and when the dust settled...suddenly the greatest source of fear in my life was simply no longer relevant. We were free to leave. ...Sometimes I still have to remind myself.