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[redheadcarrier]

What kind of stupid question is that?

[Asuka snaps, voice shrill.]

Why should I bother caring anymore if everyone can just vanish? I knew this was pointless - why bother if everyone just leaves you?

[If she weren't in panicmode, she might actually get what Kanaya's hinting at.]

[speakveryclearly]

It's been absurdly tentative since the beginning. Even if things weren't interdimensional -- we are in some farcical imitation of a war, and a temporary one at that.

Clinging to another person might be a futile aim, and nobody could blame you for giving up on caring after this. Independence is definitely a becoming trait for a soldier. If you give into isolation entirely, though... you never get the benefits of other people, after that. [She wonders if Asuka knew Haruka, had ever seen that hardening of heart firsthand.] So if you ever derived a real value from attaching yourself to someone... I think that still exists, even if the risk remains very high.

[Does that make any sense? It's all bullshit.]

[redheadcarrier]

Maybe I should've given up a long time ago.

[Yeah, still bitter. Her voice drops into an angry murmur.]

I hate everyone.

[speakveryclearly]

[I'm glad you didn't. There's a silence while she doesn't say it.]

That's a little drastic.

[redheadcarrier]

Why? Everybody leaves!

[speakveryclearly]

So why would you expend hatred upon them? I thought it would take a lot of energy.

[redheadcarrier]

Hating is easy.

[Spoken with all the bitterness of experience.]

[speakveryclearly]

I see.

[She doesn't. Asuka is out there somewhere and the feed isn't video. She'd like to see her again... the question of this as their last chance to talk always casts a shadow.]

Does it make you... feel violent?

[redheadcarrier]

It makes me want to forget everything and everyone. That's what it does!

[speakveryclearly]

If you wait long enough, that's what they say happens. When you go "back". It's crueler, really.

[redheadcarrier]

I don't want to go back!

[There's a new note of panic.]

They can't make me!

[speakveryclearly]

... --what do you want?

[redheadcarrier]

I don't want to be alone!

[speakveryclearly]

I--

[Was definitely going to say something else a lot deeper. On the other side of the line, though, something changes drastically and then Kanaya's shuffling her feet, turning around.]

Have to get back to work. Right now! Bye!

[In a clumsy way she deactivates the device.]