I glowered at the ship's commander. "Explain to me exactly why you think it's a good idea for eight-year-old children to be on the front lines of a combat."
"Their ability -"
"Doesn't matter! They're children! A civilized society does not send children out to do its fighting! In fact, it's illegal on this world!"
"It's okay, Sangnoir-san," I heard from the monitor. "We volunteered for this."
"It's not okay. You can't possibly have any idea what you're doing to yourself. If you did, you wouldn't be using up so much of your magical potential when you're still so young."
"I've tried telling her that, but she won't listen," remarked the captain.
"Then that's a second reason to keep her off the front lines, until she will listen. Think of her future! Think of both their futures!"
"Their futures depend on us surviving the present."
I didn't have a good comeback to that one. "Still, there must be some other way that they can help. What happens if one of them ends up dead? What will you tell their mothers?"
"Colonel Sangnoir, I am Fate's mother."
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
"Their ability -"
"Doesn't matter! They're children! A civilized society does not send children out to do its fighting! In fact, it's illegal on this world!"
"It's okay, Sangnoir-san," I heard from the monitor. "We volunteered for this."
"It's not okay. You can't possibly have any idea what you're doing to yourself. If you did, you wouldn't be using up so much of your magical potential when you're still so young."
"I've tried telling her that, but she won't listen," remarked the captain.
"Then that's a second reason to keep her off the front lines, until she will listen. Think of her future! Think of both their futures!"
"Their futures depend on us surviving the present."
I didn't have a good comeback to that one. "Still, there must be some other way that they can help. What happens if one of them ends up dead? What will you tell their mothers?"
"Colonel Sangnoir, I am Fate's mother."
[size=smaller](This is a thread for NanohaSteps, right? )[/size]
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012