[Jr. isn't sure whether he ought to admit as much. It was something the three of them were supposed to do together, something that they'd been excited about as children. The world outside of the Institute, a world beyond battlefields and encephalon dives, had been some mysterious yawning fascination for them all. They'd been so limited in where they could go, what they could do.
And then when those constraints were gone, it was only him and Gaignun. Not that they hadn't faced certain limitations of their own, but that was different. They'd seen a great many things that had been far beyond their reach, left only to vague whispy imaginings.
The beach they'd once all decided they'd visit was among those. Hell, he'd made his own beach. But none of it exactly captured what he'd expected as a child. What he'd anticipated alongside his brothers. It was different in a way he couldn't define.
And he'd supposed it was the gap between the imagining of a thing and its reality]
Was always different than I thought it'd be.
[He admits, though he doubts it changes the fact that Albedo wasn't included. That he wasn't there with them]
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i see this. jr. doesn't but i do.
Date: 2015-01-08 04:58 am (UTC)[Jr. isn't sure whether he ought to admit as much. It was something the three of them were supposed to do together, something that they'd been excited about as children. The world outside of the Institute, a world beyond battlefields and encephalon dives, had been some mysterious yawning fascination for them all. They'd been so limited in where they could go, what they could do.
And then when those constraints were gone, it was only him and Gaignun. Not that they hadn't faced certain limitations of their own, but that was different. They'd seen a great many things that had been far beyond their reach, left only to vague whispy imaginings.
The beach they'd once all decided they'd visit was among those. Hell, he'd made his own beach. But none of it exactly captured what he'd expected as a child. What he'd anticipated alongside his brothers. It was different in a way he couldn't define.
And he'd supposed it was the gap between the imagining of a thing and its reality]
Was always different than I thought it'd be.
[He admits, though he doubts it changes the fact that Albedo wasn't included. That he wasn't there with them]