Welcome to Gaia! ::

:::Cora wasn't sure how to respond... seeing as how what she had to say probably wouldn't help Alex feel any more at ease, but she decided to be honest:::

My mother was one of the few murders that still occur during the 31st century. They told me and my father that it was due to a rebel insurgance somewhere while she was performing her daily duties at the Educarium. Three others went missing and were also presumed dead. My father never really seemd as devistated as I felt. As though the shock of it never wore off for him, or something.

When I was 18, and had worked enough to qualify for the police force of the city, I joined, despite my father's plea not for me to do it. But I disobeyed. Henceforth I was stripped of any and all of my personal relationships with family, heratige, and social network. This was standard procedure for all police officials, I suppose because those who don't have anyone to lose, don't have anything distracting them from their missions...

When your father took me from Omegatropolis, I had already seperated myself from that world.

I had no feelings while I was an officer... that was part of the appeal to me. We were trained not to be friendly, or emotional. And with the emptiness I felt after my mother was gone, I was willing to remove all of my heart, just to avoid the hole I felt in it...

:::she held on to him tighter as she spoke those words:::

:::she sighed a little, not sadly, not happily:::

Yes, please....

:::She waited for a moment before continuing:::

The Captain... he's trying very hard. Every moment he has in the Brink I see him trying to protect us.

When I first met your father I was very much a police officer still. I kept hearing about him as the one who was the most powerful in the Brink, and so naturally, while I was there, he was my Captain.

:::thinking about it as she swished the wine inside her glass:::

I was so lost in the Brink. It was so impossible, so illogical, and I came from a world where one didn't ask questions or have opinions. I was just looking for someone to tell me what to do, as I was only comfortable with. But in the end, he has saved my life, and he has given me an opportunity to see and know things I never would have thought possible.

:::She smiles and glances down at her wine, in case she's blushing:::

No. Really though... he has saved my life... :::Her tone was more serious after a moment, and she looked back at him:::

Even if I give my life to defending the Brink of Time, he'd still have saved my life. They were going to destroy me, if I stayed in Omegatropolis for much longer, because they must have known that I was behaving suscpiciously. I would rather die a thousand times for the Brink than once at the hands of that city.

:::She couldn't help herself. He visably turned red the way he made her do, except he'd done it to himself this time. Cora giggled, and took his face in her hands:::

Then we have that in common too...

:::And she kissed him sweetly:::

:::Cora nodded to him and watched him head into the kitchen to work on their 'dinner'. Even though the clocks signaled it was somewhere closer to 10 in the morning. That didn't matter to Cora though, she had no sense of time in the least at this point, and any food that wasn't what the Brink normally had in store for her was fully welcomed... not to mention the scenery... and the company:::

:::She awaited his return, staring off at anything new and unfimiliar about her setting, which was a lot:::

:::She begins tracing her finger tips through his hair as he rejoins her on the couch:::

I believe you were explaining the extent of your love for me... :::and she smiled coyly. Cora meant it to be silly, but part of her really needed to hear that she had a place in someone's heart while they were outside the Brink:::