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::When the video turns on, people get a view of Ed in the library. He's paler than normal and if people look closely at the books on the table, they'll see titles like 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' and others relating more specifically to the Holocaust. When he speaks, his voice isn't entirely steady.::

Well, now I know why Balthazar warned me to get the hell out of Germany. What the fuck is wrong with people?

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::Ed's quiet for a moment.::

One of the ones I met... She had the memories of the person she was meant to be and the brainwashing of the person that got hold of her in competition. She might have been fine if she was left alone.

Unfortunately, she was unstable enough that I didn't really have a choice about how I dealt with her.

[It strikes a little too close for home, and Steve falls quiet for a moment as he relives his interactions with the Winter Soldier. That dead look in his eyes, that confused recognition that had only caused him to punch him harder, or to pull the trigger...

Yeah, if only Bucky had been left alone.]

And how was that? How did you deal with her?

[His mouth is dry. He thinks he already knows the answer, but he waits to hear it.]

I had to kill her. If I hadn't, she would have kept going after my brother and I.

::Sorry, Steve. You might be able to eventually get through to Bucky, but Ed didn't have the chance to try. Maybe if he had more time and she was less crazy and dangerous.::

[Steve is ready for that answer, which is the only reason that he's able to keep on looking at the screen instead of averting his gaze.

Sam had told him the same thing. Some people, you just have to stop. Steve hadn't taken that route, and Natasha tells him he got fished out of the water, that there were footprints.

So maybe there's another way. Maybe he has another recourse where Edward didn't.]

I'm sorry. Even if she was attacking you, it's never easy. [Especially for someone so young.]

Yeah. That--that was definitely something I could have done without.

::At least he's not likely to need to kill any other monsters with his mother's face.::

[Had Steve known it was the reborn image of his mother, he would have been even more apologetic.]

... Anyway, war is always ugly. I'm sorry you had to learn about that, too.

[But people can only be shielded from the darker parts of humanity for so long.]

::Maybe another time. Ed's not sharing what Sloth had been to him once today.::

There was a war when I was a kid but, uh, this kinda dwarfs it in scale. By a lot.

There's a reason it's called a World War. Or the Great War. Never really liked that second one, though.

[It seems to glorify something that was horrific, a use of propaganda that rubs him the wrong way.]

Yeah. And I hope my world never has anything like either of them.

So do I.

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