<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/b7/CmdrNomuraMacross2032JPG.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Commander Nomura<br/><strong>Date:</strong>Flashback - March 10, 2032<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Park<br/><strong>With:</strong>T'chak<br/><hr/>It<em>was</em>a pleasant day, Commander Nomura decided, now that he thought about it. A gentle breeze, a blue sky, and the big guy was pleasant conversation. It wasn't that the commander needed more than a few words here and there. Too many people talked too much anyway. Then again, some people did not talk enough, at least not about the things he would have liked them to talk about. But the day really was too pleasant to dwell on that. Time would tell.<br/><br/>He stretched out his legs and reached for his smokes again. "Stood alone on a mountain top, staring out at the great divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide."<br/><br/>Nomura declaimed the words more than he spoke them, his intonation following the melody of an old song only in the vaguest way. He slipped another cigarette from his pack and searched his pockets for the lighter. Where had he put that damn thing.<br/><br/>Ah. There. He found it, flicked it open, closed it again, tried to remember the rest of the lyrics and when he found them in his memory spoke them around the unlit cigarette fixed between his lips.<br/><br/>"Just then I saw a young hawk flying, and my soul began to rise. And pretty soon my heart was singing. Roll, roll me away, I'm gonna roll me away tonight. Gotta keep rolling, gotta keep riding,<br/>keep searching till I find what's right."<br/><br/>A metallic sound accompanied the sharp motion of his wrist as he flicked his lighter open again. He lit his cigarette and puffed out a cloud without inhaling. His eyes followed the blue cloud drifting away between the leaves overhead.<br/><br/>"A bird of prey would be nice. The way some of them can sore on an updraft, circling higher, and higher, a sharp cry barely heard in the distance... Oh well, we can't have it all, I guess."