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24th step: Quiet

Jan 18, 2010 12:33

[The feed switches on to a shadowy scene, a small room lit by a strong, crackling fire in a central pit. Saul is crouched close to the fire, poking at some fish that are spitted and roasting over it. He's telling a story, so it sounds: his voice is low, yet rich, calling back old memories.] - by the time we pulled him out, he was as cold and stiff ( Read more... )

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[Voice] arrayed_back January 18 2010, 22:34:19 UTC

I would make sure your PCD was hidden away before telling stories of that caliber. I would hate for any of the children to get scared.

[Video] favorthebold January 18 2010, 22:41:37 UTC

[Saul just laughs.]

Look around you, doma. what's an old war story to the terrors that surround us?

[Voice] arrayed_back January 18 2010, 22:44:57 UTC

Stories are strange things, much like ghosts. Just because you can see some things, doesn't mean the unseen are any less mysterious or frightening.

[video] favorthebold January 18 2010, 22:46:42 UTC

A child that is frightened by a story won't last long here, I think.

[Voice] arrayed_back January 18 2010, 22:48:16 UTC

It is not their choice to be here in the first place.

[video] favorthebold January 18 2010, 22:49:56 UTC

No. But they are here, and had better be quick about their growing.

[Voice] arrayed_back January 18 2010, 22:51:51 UTC

You suggest, then, that they have nothing to fall back on. Yes, children need to grow and learn to stand on their own legs, but when they fall, it is good to have a hand help them back up. Not a hand to hold the entire way, mind you.

[video] favorthebold January 18 2010, 22:55:06 UTC

Children aren't my business, doma. But survival is. I'd seen worse than I tell about, when I was a smaller boy than any we have here.

[Voice] arrayed_back January 18 2010, 23:03:04 UTC

I see. Perhaps it is just in my nature as a soldier to want to protect those who can't protect themselves.

[video] favorthebold January 18 2010, 23:04:59 UTC

Hah. It's in the nature of soldiers to kill. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Voice] arrayed_back January 18 2010, 23:06:29 UTC

...That is not always the case.

[video] favorthebold January 18 2010, 23:09:49 UTC

Of course not. You wish to protect some thing, and so do your enemies, and in the end all of you are just killing. There's no shame in it, you know.

[Voice] arrayed_back January 18 2010, 23:11:30 UTC

Unfortunately that is the way of things.

[video] favorthebold January 18 2010, 23:13:35 UTC

Hmpf. This is what you get, when you mix women and war.

[Voice] arrayed_back January 18 2010, 23:15:01 UTC

Excuse me?

[Video] favorthebold January 18 2010, 23:18:51 UTC

This sentiment. Women have no stomach for true fighting.

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