[accepts the light] What do you have to think of me to think that I'd let anything slip by when it's this important.
[he smokes with a hand in his pocket, looking out at the stars]
Do you know how much I could do out on my own? Can't die here permanently. That's an asset I can use. I could crush the navy from within.
[maybe not destroy it but make them so afraid of the Whiteb-- Spade name that it would take something drastic for the Navy to move against them]
What good am I the commander of the Moon? All I have are kids. Kids who don't even have a toehold in this world. Who don't understand what it's like.
[and they would break up sooner than not if ideologies kept clashing. Or if Ace smoothed his own edges and then what place would there be for Thatch? Anyway a commander should care for his crew. Respect them. He barely even knew most of them and those he thought he knew... well that was water under the bridge now]
no subject
[he smokes with a hand in his pocket, looking out at the stars]
Do you know how much I could do out on my own? Can't die here permanently. That's an asset I can use. I could crush the navy from within.
[maybe not destroy it but make them so afraid of the Whiteb-- Spade name that it would take something drastic for the Navy to move against them]
What good am I the commander of the Moon? All I have are kids. Kids who don't even have a toehold in this world. Who don't understand what it's like.
[and they would break up sooner than not if ideologies kept clashing. Or if Ace smoothed his own edges and then what place would there be for Thatch? Anyway a commander should care for his crew. Respect them. He barely even knew most of them and those he thought he knew... well that was water under the bridge now]