[ oh, Falco :( Abel gently takes the polar bear keychain as he holds it out, and it just punctuates how decidedly unfair the entire situation was. he's so young, and it wasn't exactly rocket science to figure that he was far from the only child soldier in a war to serve someone else's ends ]

...That seems terribly like you. [ his smile is rueful as he turns the little bear over in his hands. ] Thinking of someone else, while going through something like that.

Will you tell me about her...?