(open.) in spite of ourselves

[decrypter]

who: helena and others!
what: variety catchall for the month.
when: end of july/ all of august.
where: across the boat.
warnings: likely discussions of death.

Comments

[blacksludgeaffair]

It wants to relax. She feels the same. This is good. This is a connection. But her memories make it not. They prove its point. Relaxing is not ready.

Has Helena had to fight here? Will she need to? It can make them strong. That is its purpose.

[decrypter]

"...I don't want to fight. Not if I can help it. Not that I doubt you could make me strong - you can probably already tell how not strong I am, but..."

Under her words, that memory of shattering tubes in the crew cabins, the relief that came to feel them fall apart, be broken, the desire to keep going. Listening for someone's footsteps, and finding it too simple.

Where does it stop? Where do you pull a blow?