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[There's this young Big Boss lurking around the first floor. He doesn't want to venture too far in case his kid or the recently injured little Ocelot needs him, but he's pretty sure that won't be the case. Regardless, he wants to be responsible, so he's only muddling around on his floor. He's currently in the kitchen, of course, just milling around while he waits for his coffee to finish brewing.]

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[The Boss takes a good, long look at the man before her. Watching, searching, scanning. The corners of her mouth quickly tug into a grimace.]

Just as I'd thought... Your eyes are clouded, Jack. You've lost sight of the mission and who you are. You truly have left yourself vulnerable, you're just a wayward soldier lost in the tide.

[snakenbake.livejournal.com]

[He doesn't bother struggling against The Boss. She's right; he is...out of practice a bit.]

Hrrrnnn...[He groans at the truth; he hates hearing it.]

... [Then he realizes that she might be new here and that he doesn't know how things for him are completely different here.] -Wait.

[glory-in-flower.livejournal.com]

[She relaxes her grip on his arm, letting him fall from her grasp as she takes a step back.]

Speak.

[snakenbake.livejournal.com]

Did you-? Tell me that you just got here.

[He hopes, because if she's been here all this time he might flip.]

This place isn't what you might think it is. Laws of tine and space, and life and death don't flow normally here. In my time you aren't-[He chokes on the though and is unable to finish his sentence.]

[glory-in-flower.livejournal.com]

Aren't alive. [She completes that form him, her words direct and unashamed.]

You completed your mission.

[snakenbake.livejournal.com]

Yes...

I did. It was the worst day of my life.

I've never forgiven myself.