[He may not share Steph's confidence, but man, is it ever good to hear it.]
Exactly. We've already got history of them using cloning for their food and for growing organs, so we still need to be careful about exactly where we hit 'em, but we've got a start.
[He takes a deep breath.] But we have to remember that if we go through with this, we're erasing lives. The clones weren't doing this willingly. They were asking for help.
That's why I plan on doing the recon first, I'm not exactly a strategist, but having the information is the first step.
[She considers the next point a little more carefully, thinking about what Max said to her, about vigilante ethics and how they don't work in a war.
She doesn't want Jaime to go through the same thing she did.]
I haven't forgotten. If we can help them in other ways, we will, but we need to look at all our options.
[And if it gets to the point where she needs to... cut Jaime out of the decision making process so that he doesn't have to feel guilty about whatever comes, she will.]
[There's both sadness and relief; a sense of disappointment that someone she cares for is going through something tough, but she's glad, as well, that she can trust Steph to talk to her if something's going wrong. After reading over the message, she decides to start with what's easiest to address.]
i'm good
[She pauses before writing the rest of the message, thinking of the best thing to say.]
i'm sorry to hear that and i hope you can find a way to resolve it soon :( if there's anything you need help with or you just need to talk it through with someone or do something to cheer yourself up you can count on me.
[He has no idea what his announcement is going to look like. He wishes he had a proposal prepared, but instead he's only got an assembly of ideas and facts.
Man, this turned into business in a hurry, didn't it?]
Anyway, I'll let you go now. Try to actually sleep sometime, yeah?
[Snd she genuinely means that; it's nice to know that not everyone has been dragged by this, that there are some people who made it through okay.
(It's one less thing to worry about, too, but that feels a bit selfish.)]
some of it's just gonna take time, the rest might be a little trickier, but i have good friends who are trying to help. including you :) thank you for the offers, i might take you up on those sometime
even if it's tricky i believe in you :) you'll get through this no matter what! i'm glad you have good people to help you out but like i said don't mention it, that's what friends are for
[She doesn't even know how Ellie would have taken it.]
he was kind of a hot mess to be honest but he was a good guy. he was closer to ellie than me and he was also good to her even if could be a jerk to everyone else. and he made sure we had the spaceship up and running, so that was nice of him
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