This don't look like Mar Sara [Open]

[goinbust]

Date and Time: The 18th after 5pm
Location: Area around the housing units
Characters: Jim Raynor and anyone who notices him
Summary: Jim has just arrived and needs a place to remove his marine armor and a drink. The second probably more than the first.
Warnings: Someone needs a drink.

By the time Jim was briefed on what was going on he was irritated. Pulled right before storming Mengsk's damn ship for this was frustrating. Sure it was for a good cause but the timing sucked. After all of that he needed a drink, damn shame it didn't look like there was a bar around.

There was an apartment building he had a room saved for him, and probably going right there and taking off the damn tactical marine armor would have been a good move, but this was Egon's territory and he wasn't there to be harmless and overwhelmed and use small words Jim could understand.

"Damn, Earth of all places and I can't find a decent place to get drunk."

Comments

[goinbust]

"If you call one small band lashin out against a empire a war sure."

He shrugs at that and takes a long pull from his drink.

[marked_for_death]

There was a shrug in return while she muttered, "I've seen it done many times." That was, after all, how the Dunan war started, and the rebellion against the Scarletmoon Empire.

[goinbust]

Jim raises his glass at that.

"Then here's to those poor bastards. Hopefully they lived in far less interesting times than this."

[marked_for_death]

A glance over towards his gesture had her returning it with the raising of her own. "You're a man of hope then?"

[goinbust]

"Man's gotta have hope, if he don't he's worse than beat."

[marked_for_death]

"Heh, I had hope once. Guess that means that I'm 'worse than beat' as well then?" Elza said with a small quirk of her lips before glancing at him. "Or does that only involve men in your world?"

[goinbust]

"I dunno. But I've seen hope cause people to do a lot of things that normally they wouldn't. Seen a lot of people try to crush it too. That's the big thing about the Dominion, push the people till they break then push just a bit more. Maybe you just need to find that hope again."

[marked_for_death]

"The Dominion are the ones who pushed you just that little bit too much?" She found herself asked. As for her hope, that was something Elza would never regain. She knew that, and had accepted it.

[goinbust]

"Something like that. Killed a lot of innocent people and made a monster just to take power."

He scowls at that and takes a long pull from his drink.

[marked_for_death]

"Hmm sounds like it would be enough to push anyone into such a thing," she mentioned. The scowled wasn't missed, and neither was the long moment from his drink. "Yet each attempts have only strengthened your resolve."

[goinbust]

"Can't say that. Spent a lot of time lost what with all the aliens shootin at each other and us and finally Earth screwin everything up. But now we were pushin pretty hard at them. Got some of the things they did put in the public eye and busted open their big prison. Was about to charge their flag ship before I ended up here."

[marked_for_death]

She regarded him quietly as he spoke. There had been many rebellions throughout the various lands and kingdoms she'd hidden within, but Elza had never taken part of it. Her own mission had been far more important, and she had never once swayed on that mission until she had heard the truth in Radat Town.

"Mmm sounds as though you've been busy then. Think the boys can handle it while you're away? Or is it a case that you preferred that they didnt?"

[goinbust]

"It takes more than just one man to make a cause. I trust them to deal with it, just wish I was there. Something about wringing his neck on my own sounds mighty appealing to me."

[marked_for_death]

"Sometimes you find that the battle you wish to fight is the one that you cannot." It was something she had learnt the hard way, after all.

[goinbust]

"Or the battle you gotta fight is the one you don't wanna. Yeah, I've seen that too. Seen it a lot of times."

[marked_for_death]

It seemed as though they were on a similar page in that way. Perhaps the battle he didn't want to speak of was the one she had been fighting, since she hadn't ever wanted to.

"Heh," she sounded, but keep quiet as she brought her drink up to take another sip.

[goinbust]

Jim shook his head a bit and refilled his glass before just staring at the reflection of the light off the booze.