It was, [ she concedes. That much is true. It was almost domestic, the routine she'd fallen into before the tensions on the surface erupted. ] If you could get past the possibility of a civil war or the idea of your home being obliterated by an intergalactic storm.
[ Because that's one of the more difficult pills to swallow, isn't it? Alien planet, faraway civilisation, people kept in stasis pods until they're ready to rejoin society β that's the stuff out of novels or radio programmes. Or even Howard Stark's wild imagination since she's sure space travel was one of the many things he'd hoped to accomplish someday. But the thought of having nothing to go back to, well, that's the piece that always grounds the whole mess into something nightmarish.
And the questions, too: why were they spared, why were people who were considered terrible spared? A man who tried to assassinate Steve Rogers is walking amongst them below. No telling who else more dangerous or nefarious. (Many of them are dangerous, possibly herself included and definitely Steve, but morals are a different matter. Maybe.) ]
The theories, of course, vary depending on who you speak with. Some people come from places where apocalypse is as commonplace as magic. And it doesn't matter whether or not you believe in any of it because what could be the stuff of fairytales for us is reality for others. The scope is enormous. I've been awake nearly a year and things still surprise me.
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[ Because that's one of the more difficult pills to swallow, isn't it? Alien planet, faraway civilisation, people kept in stasis pods until they're ready to rejoin society β that's the stuff out of novels or radio programmes. Or even Howard Stark's wild imagination since she's sure space travel was one of the many things he'd hoped to accomplish someday. But the thought of having nothing to go back to, well, that's the piece that always grounds the whole mess into something nightmarish.
And the questions, too: why were they spared, why were people who were considered terrible spared? A man who tried to assassinate Steve Rogers is walking amongst them below. No telling who else more dangerous or nefarious. (Many of them are dangerous, possibly herself included and definitely Steve, but morals are a different matter. Maybe.) ]
The theories, of course, vary depending on who you speak with. Some people come from places where apocalypse is as commonplace as magic. And it doesn't matter whether or not you believe in any of it because what could be the stuff of fairytales for us is reality for others. The scope is enormous. I've been awake nearly a year and things still surprise me.