What's keeping you awake at night ...

[netrunnerzero]

There's a man sitting in bench in the nexus with medium length length sliver hair and hard eyes of a blue-gray hue.  He leans forward in the seat with his hands clasped together in front of him.  He looks as though he's trying to crack his knuckles, but they won't crack.  His fingers are the right shape.  Joints in all in the right place, at a glance, but the hands are entirely formed of stain resistant metal.

Zero looks as if he's not looking at his surroundings, but through them and through you too, if you're approaching him.  He feels a question like an inch in the back of his mind and it's apparently one that he can't help, but to scratch.

"What's keeping you awake at night?"

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[tielle_mortevus]

She sighed softly.

"Oh I'm quite familiar with unfair situations in life. One might say my life has been full of tragedy... save a few glimmers of hope that keep me going."

She shrugs as she lets her head lull back a bit, gazing up at the sky.

"Best we can do is make due with what life gives us."

[netrunnerzero]

"Not the type to fall into the trap of vengeance, eh?"

Somewhere in a corner of memory and mind, Zero can hear the sounds of screams and bullets flying in run down old building. His agent, which to most would sound indistinguishable from the beep of any smart phone, chimes and seems to be ignoring both things.

At least for now, anyway.

"I remember feeling like it was the only choice I had."

[tielle_mortevus]

"Oh god no, I do love getting some sweet delicious vengeance... though my circumstances are a bit more... complex."

She let out a heavy sigh, shaking her head.

"Besides, I've punished myself more than enough... I did what I had to do, but still... being forced to take his life by my own hand certainly takes a toll."

[netrunnerzero]

"I'm not sure I can relate to that."

Any of it, really. He hadn't been involved in the deaths of his small, would-have-been family. They just were with him on one day and were gone the next, leaving him to figure out how his life could have any meaning without them.

And. He hadn't found vengeance all that satisfying in the end. It hadn't brought anyone back to him. Nor had it made it any easier to go on without them. Though ...

"My tour of vengeance ended in a job offer."