Certainly Rip wouldn't consider himself happy; less burdened might be the closest one could come to describing the difference between the man he is now and the fool he'd once been. The concerns of history no longer fall on his shoulders, nor does he feel the same attachments to those he once considered comrades.
But she's not wrong to think that they are still stubbornly connected regardless. Rip's transmission over the network has made that clear enough, along with each persistent encounter he's faced from any of the Legends.
They are persistent. Pointlessly so, but—persistent.]
Then it's fortunate that I don't expect to find any measure of contentment here. [And it's only a matter of time, he thinks, before the Legends realize he is a lost and hopeless cause. Something would come to a head. It's inevitable, and Rip's plan then is to do what he must to remain himself when that convergence does happen.]
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Certainly Rip wouldn't consider himself happy; less burdened might be the closest one could come to describing the difference between the man he is now and the fool he'd once been. The concerns of history no longer fall on his shoulders, nor does he feel the same attachments to those he once considered comrades.
But she's not wrong to think that they are still stubbornly connected regardless. Rip's transmission over the network has made that clear enough, along with each persistent encounter he's faced from any of the Legends.
They are persistent. Pointlessly so, but—persistent.]
Then it's fortunate that I don't expect to find any measure of contentment here. [And it's only a matter of time, he thinks, before the Legends realize he is a lost and hopeless cause. Something would come to a head. It's inevitable, and Rip's plan then is to do what he must to remain himself when that convergence does happen.]