[ She is so business, but especially because she sees things she believes needs to be done. There is no rest - not when there are people and buildings to make livable. Not when the war has been thrust unceremoniously, unforgettably, and unforgivably on their doorstep. ]
[ He moves. Speaks. She pauses. ]
I do not do it to be thanked.
[ Somehow the thick way in which she says it almost sounds like, "there is nothing to be thankful for". She does not want to be thanked, she wants to - She shakes the thought away, moves to catch his pace with that same straight-forward, unending way in which she looks forward. ]
... We answered many distress calls for people who would never be found. On the rare case they were found it was a surprise to all of us. I am used to making these kind of calls.
[ She treads, tone never changing. ] I'll do them as long as I need to.
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[ He moves. Speaks. She pauses. ]
I do not do it to be thanked.
[ Somehow the thick way in which she says it almost sounds like, "there is nothing to be thankful for". She does not want to be thanked, she wants to - She shakes the thought away, moves to catch his pace with that same straight-forward, unending way in which she looks forward. ]
... We answered many distress calls for people who would never be found. On the rare case they were found it was a surprise to all of us. I am used to making these kind of calls.
[ She treads, tone never changing. ] I'll do them as long as I need to.
[ "So no one else has to." ]