[The hesitation is brief, but it's there; for surely such a blatant admission is the same as having explain just why and how. The result is the same: Kratos has rendered an ambush obsolete. The only salvation is that he hasn't provided the means for a counter-ambush.
[But -- lives will be saved, not taken, on either side. And Yuan is -- Yuan is. Kratos can be content with that. Surely lives saved is a good enough motive.
[Still. Kratos doesn't move from where he is, and only in part because his leg may have stiffened. The last number of days have been entirely too distant for him to want to disturb the weight of hands on shoulders, head on his.
[... He doesn't expect to fall asleep where he sits, but it happens nonetheless.]
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[The hesitation is brief, but it's there; for surely such a blatant admission is the same as having explain just why and how. The result is the same: Kratos has rendered an ambush obsolete. The only salvation is that he hasn't provided the means for a counter-ambush.
[But -- lives will be saved, not taken, on either side. And Yuan is -- Yuan is. Kratos can be content with that. Surely lives saved is a good enough motive.
[Still. Kratos doesn't move from where he is, and only in part because his leg may have stiffened. The last number of days have been entirely too distant for him to want to disturb the weight of hands on shoulders, head on his.
[... He doesn't expect to fall asleep where he sits, but it happens nonetheless.]