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Drabble 007: Best Laid Plans - Legend of the Galactic Heroes
They were ten when they came up with the worst plan ever. It was a plan suitable for children, which they had been, and, despite growing older and wiser to the ways of the world around them, they had continued believing in it.
It was a simple plan, really. Win the universe to free a sister.
At some point the two parts became, not one for the sake of the other, but each for the sake of themselves, for what was right - the right that they believed wholeheartedly in.
But what broke his heart was that they had almost succeeded.