matter of fact. taking hermione at her word, at face value, and declaring it good. if you can, then you must, mustn't you? it hadn't been a moral choice for her, at the beginning, but a practical one: of course she wants to save the world she fucking lives in. of course she's going to do something about it, if she's able.
it had not come by nature, for her. but if you can, do is what she expects of herself, so why not expect it of everyone else, too? the moreso that it wasn't her nature. if she can get it the fuck together, no one's got an excuse and she's going to remember everyone that didn't.
rifters don't have to fight and it matters that it's a choice, but she has habitually judged the ones that don't or don't want to, using up riftwatch resources, made safer than most can hope to be by their work and walls, and for what? and ungrateful. it isn't fair, maybe, the way she sees it — none of this is, though. what about the things that they can make fairer. what about the things that they can claw back from the conflict.
they can so they must so they do. good. )
It's not that I don't appreciate what you've lost, ( after a moment, though she knows there was a time that absolutely would have been part of it, ) it's just tomorrow doesn't give a shit what any of us have lost getting here, you know.
( there's a certain camaraderie to that; from the conversation they've had, she says it as if she has every expectation that hermione does know, that she is not high-handedly asserting a new truth but acknowledging the shape of something familiar to them both. )
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Good.
( not doubtful, not snide, not challenging—
matter of fact. taking hermione at her word, at face value, and declaring it good. if you can, then you must, mustn't you? it hadn't been a moral choice for her, at the beginning, but a practical one: of course she wants to save the world she fucking lives in. of course she's going to do something about it, if she's able.
it had not come by nature, for her. but if you can, do is what she expects of herself, so why not expect it of everyone else, too? the moreso that it wasn't her nature. if she can get it the fuck together, no one's got an excuse and she's going to remember everyone that didn't.
rifters don't have to fight and it matters that it's a choice, but she has habitually judged the ones that don't or don't want to, using up riftwatch resources, made safer than most can hope to be by their work and walls, and for what? and ungrateful. it isn't fair, maybe, the way she sees it — none of this is, though. what about the things that they can make fairer. what about the things that they can claw back from the conflict.
they can so they must so they do. good. )
It's not that I don't appreciate what you've lost, ( after a moment, though she knows there was a time that absolutely would have been part of it, ) it's just tomorrow doesn't give a shit what any of us have lost getting here, you know.
( there's a certain camaraderie to that; from the conversation they've had, she says it as if she has every expectation that hermione does know, that she is not high-handedly asserting a new truth but acknowledging the shape of something familiar to them both. )