[He'd laugh, if he knew exactly what she thought. That he'd know, really know anything about the Barge is absurd, in his mind. He's spent his time here stumbling from one place to another, dying: everything about his experience here has been hard and surreal.
Well. Maybe not everything.
Bond looks away for a moment, scanning the - well it's not much of a horizon - and shrugs.]
I'm not ashamed. [Of some things, yes. Of his life, of the good he's done, of the methods he's needed to do that good? Never.] I'm sorry that some people died who didn't need to.
[He doesn't feel the pang any more, when he thinks of M's last breaths. Not as hard and strong as it was when he first came here. You grieve, and you move on. He had to remember that.]
Who shouldn't have. [He looks down at her again, and offers more than he would have if he was staying, if she didn't remind him of an angry young man who stopped caring.] I told someone I loved her, and graduated. It's not always about what you've done.
Spam
Well. Maybe not everything.
Bond looks away for a moment, scanning the - well it's not much of a horizon - and shrugs.]
I'm not ashamed. [Of some things, yes. Of his life, of the good he's done, of the methods he's needed to do that good? Never.] I'm sorry that some people died who didn't need to.
[He doesn't feel the pang any more, when he thinks of M's last breaths. Not as hard and strong as it was when he first came here. You grieve, and you move on. He had to remember that.]
Who shouldn't have. [He looks down at her again, and offers more than he would have if he was staying, if she didn't remind him of an angry young man who stopped caring.] I told someone I loved her, and graduated. It's not always about what you've done.