[ Duo hangs for a moment, debating what to say that doesn't sound... well. Too violent, too vindictive, too much like a teenager with a vendetta. But.. literally everything about what got Duo in to the war (other than accidentally stowing away on the right ship to land him in an opportune position) - was about a vendetta. A very particular vendetta, at that.

He isn't sure he wants to delve that far in to it just yet - telling Jim about the Church Massacre was probably a bit much, even though they weren't exactly strangers at this point.

Duo is but barely seventeen, possibly eighteen by now (chosen birthdays versus unknown birthdays, hooray!), but his life has been incredibly heavy. ]

.. When you get five - nah, four, Quatre doesn't count - kids together that are space orphans, literally have nothing, and no one, and offer them a chance to get the Alliance back for what they've done? It's a free soldier with no one on the side to maybe change your mind.

[ A brow raise. ] I mean, what would you choose at twelve or thirteen?

[ Yes, that young. ]