[The angelic captain gives Colette an obviously startled blink, but Kratos turns toward Anna, consternation and dread in his bearing as it hadn't been before.]
To fight --
[Anna steps forward, pressing her hand to his chest, her spear in the other.]
Kratos. Listen. I think he's been given a cruxis crystal. He's been working at the factory with other young men who've been given them under false pretenses -- and he wants so badly to fight, to protect others ... like his father.
[Her voices softens at the last, and all Kratos can do is shake his head and try to orient his thinking. This is no time to start losing focus, even though the thought of Lloyd as a crystal's host makes him feel hollow with dread.]
He and the rest of the young human men from the village will be the first line past the village -- Cruxis will use them as fodder to slow us down. They know we're trying to avoid killing the innocent.
[Kratos glances toward the northern gate, his mouth a grim line.]
Will he recognise me?
[Anna's response is swift and firm.]
Yes. I've shown him pictures.
[And yet, he might not be convinced -- the images he's seen of Kratos would in no way match the angel, and Lloyd was all of a year old the last time they saw each other. Someone more familiar would help; but not Anna. Anna knows Chayim and how they work, and she'll be needed to keep the villagers calm as they evacuate. Instead Kratos looks at Raine.]
no subject
To fight --
[Anna steps forward, pressing her hand to his chest, her spear in the other.]
Kratos. Listen. I think he's been given a cruxis crystal. He's been working at the factory with other young men who've been given them under false pretenses -- and he wants so badly to fight, to protect others ... like his father.
[Her voices softens at the last, and all Kratos can do is shake his head and try to orient his thinking. This is no time to start losing focus, even though the thought of Lloyd as a crystal's host makes him feel hollow with dread.]
He and the rest of the young human men from the village will be the first line past the village -- Cruxis will use them as fodder to slow us down. They know we're trying to avoid killing the innocent.
[Kratos glances toward the northern gate, his mouth a grim line.]
Will he recognise me?
[Anna's response is swift and firm.]
Yes. I've shown him pictures.
[And yet, he might not be convinced -- the images he's seen of Kratos would in no way match the angel, and Lloyd was all of a year old the last time they saw each other. Someone more familiar would help; but not Anna. Anna knows Chayim and how they work, and she'll be needed to keep the villagers calm as they evacuate. Instead Kratos looks at Raine.]
Raine, is it? You're coming with me.