Though even a (socially inept) kid his age probably knows that succumbing to the same obvious despair will only make matters worse, Cloud can't help the way his own moderately hopeful expression falls, at that wonderful news. If there's no boat, they're stranded. At least until someone else comes around - and not knowing the island, Cloud can't say when that might be.
His survival training definitely doesn't extend to taking care of children.
...But that's not the way a SOLDIER would think, and he's duty bound by his own aspirations to do something. Looking out toward the horizon, again, and that other island, Cloud seems to come (reluctantly) to a decision. ]
...I guess- I could swim.
[ With a destination in sight, it couldn't be that far. Maybe. (Not that the distance is his main concern, watching those waves rise and fall in that fake-calm way that's really just as roiling once you're in it.) ]
And bring somebody back with another boat, to get you, too.
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Though even a (socially inept) kid his age probably knows that succumbing to the same obvious despair will only make matters worse, Cloud can't help the way his own moderately hopeful expression falls, at that wonderful news. If there's no boat, they're stranded. At least until someone else comes around - and not knowing the island, Cloud can't say when that might be.
His survival training definitely doesn't extend to taking care of children.
...But that's not the way a SOLDIER would think, and he's duty bound by his own aspirations to do something. Looking out toward the horizon, again, and that other island, Cloud seems to come (reluctantly) to a decision. ]
...I guess- I could swim.
[ With a destination in sight, it couldn't be that far. Maybe. (Not that the distance is his main concern, watching those waves rise and fall in that fake-calm way that's really just as roiling once you're in it.) ]
And bring somebody back with another boat, to get you, too.