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[lingeringhope]

[Hope's voice is clear and clipped.]

If you would like to leave a message, you may do so here. I can't promise to respond. I have many demands on my time, and this sort of thing is far down the list. Still, if you would like to, you may.

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[lingeringhope]

You can't simply decide what's best for us. You may be the oldest of us, and I respect all that you do and have done, but that doesn't give you the right to make these sort of decisions. We should have worked together on this. Perhaps there's something one of us can do that you missed.

Instead, you put yourself in danger.

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[thirdreturned]

Better me than you. Isn't that how this goes?

It's not an avenue we can justify exploring yet. We're still just trying to survive. Don't get distracted on things that don't matter.

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[lingeringhope]

You are not expendable. I will not have you put yourself in danger for our survival - for my survival - again.

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[thirdreturned]

You should know better by now. You should know that everyone is expendable as long as you survive. This is how we have to think. We rebuilt this city and we got this far because I knew that, even when no one else would admit it.

I know it isn't easy to hear, but I won't let anything happen to you as long as I can stop it. No matter the cost, I will get you out alive.

That's a promise to you.

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[lingeringhope]

I can't agree to that. I understand why you say it, but - I can't.

I want us all to make it out alive. I need that.