by Cyantic » Wed Jun 03, 2020 12:28 am
Oberyn and Kaitlyn eject first. It seems... natural to them, in the end. They had come with each other and they had left with each other. Perhaps they had learned some things, perhaps they had embraced their futures... perhaps they had become wholer people in the furnace. But one thing is for sure... an Uncle had become a Father in these last moments.
Hawk carries Hailey to a pod, resting a necklace against Hailey's chest. She kisses her cheek and fires the pod. Out there, she would see her daughter again. Out there, they could be together. Out there... a manager's war had ended and a mother's peace had begun.
Judeau places the man he knew as his father in the pod. He had learned much of the western world, their lives and their falls, their men and their flaws. He looked into Federico's eyes one last time. A thousand miles away, he had found someone his opposite. A man of technology, of fast paced living. But their values were the same, their hearts were the same. He nodded to him. Whatever this life may hold, there would always be them.
Seliph boarded a pod with reluctance. It's not that he hated freedom, but he felt like... an opportunity had slipped through the cracks. An ending had been missed, where he could learn about himself again. To know. To think. His past could have been his again. But... it's a dangerous thing, that. Being caught up in who you were, who you belonged too at one point. A dangerous thing indeed. When you face the past all the time, you can't see the future for what it is - what it could be. He may not know who he was, but he could be who he wanted to be.
Hywel could not be reached for comment, but whatever his worldview... ups and downs, left and rights, it felt like things kept shifting in a snow globe. Every hour, something changed in here, something changed in all of them. He couldn't figure out what it was, what any of it was. Nobody was evil... and no one was perfect. All had their vices, their desires. He learned that in California, and he learned that here.
Federico boarded his pod last, after the doors shut. Part of him wondered if Nelson would come. Part of him knew there was no hurry for him - it was a long trip. It'd be the last time he could stretch his legs. Part of him wondered what happened to his partner, but he had a strange feeling that things had been torn between them in this game. He looked at the machine for a long time, Leontiy's words floating around in his mind. It was a pipe dream, of course, but many things are. Many impossible things are. At the start, only four people could live. And now many more had lived in the end. He meandered a bit, a case half unsolved. He knew the bits and pieces, but he would never know the ending. One way or another, the case of the century was over. He entered a pod back to Earth as well, after the doors shut. He wished Nelson well in his last moments. He would never understand a father's grief, but he had seen it enough to know that it can break someone like an impure sword. A man had gone in, and a skinshape of one did not come out.