[ Lucretia just laughs, shrugging her shoulders ruefully. ]
Don't worry about it. At a gathering like this, I think some of that might be inevitable.
[ Considering the reason why they're all here...
She pauses at that, humming quietly and looking thoughtful. There are so many memories to choose from, is the problem. And yet...it's been so long since any she would describe as a "favorite." ]
I think...the first time all of us laughed together. [ She smiles, gazing not quite at Cecily as she remembers. ] We'd only been together on the Starblaster for a few days...weeks at most. It was still all so new, and while we'd all met before the mission, of course, we didn't really know each other. We were still all...strangers, despite the Captain's team-building exercises. Still trying to figure out our individual roles. How to work together, to relate to each other.
[ Apart from the twins, of course, but it goes without saying that they'd always been a unit. ]
But Captain Davenport always insisted we eat dinner together. More like a family than a crew. And then Magnus made some comment, and Merle responded, and Lup made a joke...and before we knew it, everyone was just slinging one-liners, doing their best to make everyone else laugh, and we were all just losing it.
It's easy to say now, of course, with all those decades of hindsight, but I like to think that we knew then. That there was something special there. Something different.
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Don't worry about it. At a gathering like this, I think some of that might be inevitable.
[ Considering the reason why they're all here...
She pauses at that, humming quietly and looking thoughtful. There are so many memories to choose from, is the problem. And yet...it's been so long since any she would describe as a "favorite." ]
I think...the first time all of us laughed together. [ She smiles, gazing not quite at Cecily as she remembers. ] We'd only been together on the Starblaster for a few days...weeks at most. It was still all so new, and while we'd all met before the mission, of course, we didn't really know each other. We were still all...strangers, despite the Captain's team-building exercises. Still trying to figure out our individual roles. How to work together, to relate to each other.
[ Apart from the twins, of course, but it goes without saying that they'd always been a unit. ]
But Captain Davenport always insisted we eat dinner together. More like a family than a crew. And then Magnus made some comment, and Merle responded, and Lup made a joke...and before we knew it, everyone was just slinging one-liners, doing their best to make everyone else laugh, and we were all just losing it.
It's easy to say now, of course, with all those decades of hindsight, but I like to think that we knew then. That there was something special there. Something different.