Veles 006 [text]

[keeperofthederp]

I have not entirely mastered any way of filtering this so many of you may feel free to skip this.  Also, I do not know those who would number among Lioriley's friends and I must speak with all of you via this means.  To those who do not know me but know her, I am Veles, her teacher and her guardian of sorts; a polite young troll named Nepeta gave a

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[illustres]

[Okay, maybe Kyle's only known her for a little bit, and this guy is her teacher/protector (and hi dragon this is a bit ... new - times like this he's glad he's in the whole intergalactic peacemaker/space cop business) -]

Different people have different ways of coping with the loss of someone they care about. I know it's frustrating, and believe me, I've ... done the same thing, but sometimes it's just best to let them figure out things on their own.

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[keeperofthederp]

[Veles is so beyond used to people needing a moment when they see him now that he doesn't even care anymore unless they're rude but they generally have the good sense to be civil at least for the first encounter.]

Is today some holiday of idiotic statements I have not been informed about?

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Not that I know of.

Look, I know you're worried about her - that much is obvious. And yes, people are prone to doing stupid things when something like this happens, but at the same time - shouldn't you have enough faith in her to work through this?

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[keeperofthederp]

If you could see into the future of a friend - look at this hypothetically if you do not have such a friend - and see their decisions would you have faith in them? If you remembered their past deeds with absolute crystalline clarity would you have faith? If a place such as this held such unknown qualities that bring out the less savoury sides of their nature would you have faith?

[Dragon rhetoric is beautiful.]

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Yes, I would.

[Calmest face ever. Yup, there's a reason why the Corps liked him to do diplomatic stuff.]

Sure, I might nudge them along in another direction if I could. And I might end up acting weird because I know exactly what might happen. But they're my friends - if I don't have faith in them, then who will?

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[keeperofthederp]

[He would call bullshit but he feels his vast silence to the first remark will accomplish that.]

They must learn to have faith in themselves. You cannot expect to hold their hand forever, as much as you might like to.

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[illustres]

[He's not perfect, but there was truth to what Kyle was saying - his time as Ion helped him with that - even if his faith in humanity as a whole did waver.]

I know that, and I don't want to. If anything, I try to help them realize that having faith in yourself is the first big step in realizing what you can do as a person.

I'll even admit that I've had to go through some of my own soul-searching because of my own wavering faith in myself. But I overcame it, not just on my own, but with the help of my friends.

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[keeperofthederp]

Oh how wonderful for you, I am sure you wept masculine tears into their shoulders when all was said and done.

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[illustres]

As entertaining as that might seem, no, not really.

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[keeperofthederp]

How disappointing, I may retire to weep myself over the rotting carcass of a whale.