This won't end well. There isn't enough in their favor, too many unknown variables to consider. They've no safety net other than the one they build, and even then they are limited. Too few resources. Nothing about this is balanced and above all else there is no time.
Luke's managed. Lupin's managed. Law has most likely endured equally impossible odds with little planning and come out more or less alive.
She hasn't.
Lupin does the impossible. Law destroyed the Kraken. Luke? An empire.
She's a woman with a gun on her best day. And here? She doesn't even have the gun.
What am I doing here?
This is more than asking the wrong questions. Than irritating a criminal. She's an ant amongst giants and every inch of her is aware of it the moment Luke lays down his willingness to die. And for half a second, there's a scrambling moment of mad panic.
At least it's familiar. That curdling in her gut before the first note, the first step, the first cut. That first, fatal shot.
It passes. She looks from Law, to Lupin, to Luke.]
This is insane. [A beat.] And I'm as mad as the rest of you. Some things need to be done, no matter the consequences. And if I die? So be it.
[Action, June 12th]
This won't end well. There isn't enough in their favor, too many unknown variables to consider. They've no safety net other than the one they build, and even then they are limited. Too few resources. Nothing about this is balanced and above all else there is no time.
Luke's managed. Lupin's managed. Law has most likely endured equally impossible odds with little planning and come out more or less alive.
She hasn't.
Lupin does the impossible. Law destroyed the Kraken. Luke? An empire.
She's a woman with a gun on her best day. And here? She doesn't even have the gun.
What am I doing here?
This is more than asking the wrong questions. Than irritating a criminal. She's an ant amongst giants and every inch of her is aware of it the moment Luke lays down his willingness to die. And for half a second, there's a scrambling moment of mad panic.
At least it's familiar. That curdling in her gut before the first note, the first step, the first cut. That first, fatal shot.
It passes. She looks from Law, to Lupin, to Luke.]
This is insane. [A beat.] And I'm as mad as the rest of you. Some things need to be done, no matter the consequences. And if I die? So be it.