I know. [This spoken painfully. She had heard too many times the question whenever if Spartans were human at all.]
We get the treatment we need for PTSD, and we can take a lot of punishment - physical and mental. For us this is a challenge, and we can cope with the damage. But for everyone else it's unbearable.
The place we feel the most at home... is in battle.
[This is spoken with some resignation. As much as she wants to fit, fighting is what makes her feel alive. As much as she likes the peace of Luceti, she craves for battle. She cherishes it... Even if it means risking facing loved ones. Or dying.]
Before Luceti, after all the training we made, we didn't fit anywhere else.
[The place dissolves once again. Around the armored woman, there are now several figures in all varieties of service uniforms that stare at her with discomfort, fear, and sometimes outright disgust.]
Dream
We get the treatment we need for PTSD, and we can take a lot of punishment - physical and mental. For us this is a challenge, and we can cope with the damage. But for everyone else it's unbearable.
The place we feel the most at home... is in battle.
[This is spoken with some resignation. As much as she wants to fit, fighting is what makes her feel alive. As much as she likes the peace of Luceti, she craves for battle. She cherishes it... Even if it means risking facing loved ones. Or dying.]
Before Luceti, after all the training we made, we didn't fit anywhere else.
[The place dissolves once again. Around the armored woman, there are now several figures in all varieties of service uniforms that stare at her with discomfort, fear, and sometimes outright disgust.]