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"Rem?"
Rayne had struggled to his feet and come to stand behind her,
"Rem I'm sorry...I'm so fucking sorry..."
She looked up at him for a moment, then stood,
"Don't be, this isn't over yet!"
She turned to the croud of people who'd been helping them get
the people out,
"Listen, I know I have no right to be asking you for this, I've never
met any of you before in my life, and the chances are that the
men buried here are the same" she looked out, taking every face
in, wondering breifly if she'd remember any of them should she
meet them again, "and if you're in this town then you've probably
gotten used to looking out for you and yours, a lot of the time
that's how we survive, but all we ever do is survive, just manage
to hang on. This is the first time in my life I've seen so many
people acting together to help total strangers, and we've done a
lot more than survive, we've saved. All the peacekeepers ever do
is kill! All the peacekeepers do is this! So even if tomorrow you
all go back to looking out for you and yours, I am asking you to
give me tonight!" she gestured to the building, "to give them
tonight as one night when we can help people just
because....just because we can." she sighed a little, "because in
this town tomorrow night it could be you...and I'm telling you all
right now that any man that I can save, I will save! I'm asking you
to do the same"
With that Rem ran back towards the rubble and began pulling
lumps of rock away, digging through it desperately in the hopes
of finding somone, anyone still living.
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