Miles to Midnight

[Erremnart]

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"We already felt resentment from and towards our Separatist peers because of our ideological differences, so I guess we can cope with that if it'd be just that. I was more worried about some prosecution and 'justice' made on me or my men.", she said while she without breaking away from his eyes.

She studied his expression again for while as Damien waited for her decision. Slight, miniscule movements of her eyes meant that she examined some fine details on his face.
"I believe that you want a clear and definitive answer from me, isn't it?", she said after a while, "I'm mostly convinced by your ideas, although that probably isn't surprising if my other options is to waste my life in Vespucci, run away to other House or surrender myself now and spend rest of my days at Sugarland or wherever captured legionaries slave their lives away.".

She slided emblem back to him, "That's an idea, a hope for a future that might or might not come, but still better than grim certainity of nothing.".

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