Chapter Three (Closure)

[aipsylon]

"Who I am, what I have been associated with. I can't take a risk I will be branded a criminal. That will undermine any influence that I have here and any chance I have to impact the future. You are set on wanting to do something, even when it is wise to do nothing and I don't even have something productive for you to do to keep you occupied. Jake, well he cares for Kimiko and she for him, not that that is not wonderful, but it complicates the matter of planning to rely on romantic whim. I am not sure that going home is possible, so I plan on doing what I can to make that future a better place, as I always have." He looked to Alice. "Would that I could be that person, I have already lost the respect of one and his trust," His eyes glanced to Adrian, "and I don't know why. In a group this size that is all it takes for a group to shatter."

He took a deep breath in, then let it out. "We should be going to the bridge, events there are time sensitive, this discussion is not."