"You know what I wished?" She had listened to him talk without turning around to face him, and Su stayed that was for now, hands clenched at her side. "I wished that the war would end, and that I could go home. I wished I could be with my family again and hug my mother and father. I wished I could have my own place- that we could have our own place, with silly themed rooms and one that was filled entirely with books, and a big kitchen that I could cook in. I wished that someday maybe I- we even, I don't know- could get married and have kids and that I'd die like eighty or ninety years from now with a ton of grandkids and..." She tried to curl her fingers around the bars in the gate, to no avail of course.
"And now I'll never be able to do any of that. Four years on the run and we gave up everything, for what? I'll never get to grow up now or have any of the things I wanted. My parents will never get to see me again. We don't have a future!!" She kicked at the gate, screaming as her foot went straight through it. "IT'S NOT FAIR!!!" Once she'd gotten the scream out, Su's head fell forward as the tension went out of her body and she said softly. "I want to go home. I just... I want to feel." She turned her head finally to look at him, cheeks shining with silvery tears. "Please, Kevin..."