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[pickedpockets]

Made, not trained. He tucks that away for later, too.

"That helps you fight tanks?"

[toten_sie]

He nods.

"I can."

A pause.

"I have."

How to make this clear?

"I died of a flu. Not a tank."

[pickedpockets]

"You were at war." He doesn't know why that makes him so sad. "Still going on when you died?"

[toten_sie]

He shakes his head.

Then he nods.

"The peace was signed three years ago." But-

"But the war damages... for some people, the war never ended."

He's one of those people.

[pickedpockets]

"Fuck war," Juno says mildly. "We've had our own - nothing like that." No soldiers, built to fight tanks. "Not that it's worth much, but I'm sorry you had to go through that."

[toten_sie]

"Everyone had to go through it," he says back, because it's the truth. The war touched everyone, even the ones that people didn't realize it might touch. How it touched them was the real crux of the matter.

"But I'm sorry you had one too."

[pickedpockets]

"It's not really the same. History. But -"

Juno shakes his head, takes a breath.

"I like your nails."

[toten_sie]

That makes him smile, bright and quick and easy.

"Thank you!"

He looks down at them.

"Mama Kate used to do pinks and reds but I wanted something that reminded me of home and they had a nice green."