( cowardly, maybe. but, they couldn't always afford losses.
picking and choosing battles have always been an imperative concept in winning wars, or that's what experience and his own personal knowledge has taught him. but, at the same time, he can't entirely disagree with her. the moment he decided to step into the ark, was the single decisive point in time where he partook in a long-standing fight with more odds against them than pros or "evens" or whatever it was that gave them a disadvantage. and apparently, it ended well. apparently. not that he knew firsthand. and maybe that's why he can decide to be that much more cautious. ) You're right. ( but, what else could he say? that wasn't all there was, but he knew there was no convincing her. he's tried avoiding this outcome in so many ways, and even then. nothing. she stayed. unyielding.
and so he decides to regard her in silence. the only thing he hasn't tried yet. but, in this time he tries to formulate a way for them to come to an agreement on this, and yet it doesn't quite come. not now, not yet. and so the stillness continues. )
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picking and choosing battles have always been an imperative concept in winning wars, or that's what experience and his own personal knowledge has taught him. but, at the same time, he can't entirely disagree with her. the moment he decided to step into the ark, was the single decisive point in time where he partook in a long-standing fight with more odds against them than pros or "evens" or whatever it was that gave them a disadvantage. and apparently, it ended well. apparently. not that he knew firsthand. and maybe that's why he can decide to be that much more cautious. ) You're right. ( but, what else could he say? that wasn't all there was, but he knew there was no convincing her. he's tried avoiding this outcome in so many ways, and even then. nothing. she stayed. unyielding.
and so he decides to regard her in silence. the only thing he hasn't tried yet. but, in this time he tries to formulate a way for them to come to an agreement on this, and yet it doesn't quite come. not now, not yet. and so the stillness continues. )