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[inhumandog]

How cruel it is, this month. It's as if the cold has taken the very breath from our bodies, laying it out for everyone to witness. I watched you, oh yes. You scurried around like so many ants, confused and wary, but still so very trusting. Like every flood before this. Like every breach. Every port. You slide into the trusting hands of the Admiral

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[majorum_pride]

The reality is that all the people I have left are aboard this boat. No matter what inconsistencies and lies we've been given, that fact remains and therefore I've stayed.

It might not be the kindest sentiment, but affected or not it is a reliable one.

[inhumandog]

I wasn't looking for kindness. This is...an awful place to display kindness.

[majorum_pride]

[There's a couple of times that I could have used it. No wait. Don't say that.]

At the very least friendliness. One need not be kind to be a friend.

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[inhumandog]

I stayed because the people I cared about were here. Because I was grounded in the knowledge that no matter what, there would be a consistency there that bound me to them.

Now what?

[Sorry, Rhade, Iago was bound to break down at some point.]

What the hell am I supposed to think?

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[majorum_pride]

I don't know. [Honest answer. Enough people have left him in the past that he knows how it feels.] Nothing good. I just know if certain people were to leave, I would go as well.

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[inhumandog]

Where? Where would you go?

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[majorum_pride]

It doesn't really matter. Without them, it would just be me starting over on my own and I would treat it as such. When they're gone, there's only this place, and I have no affection for it. As long as there's still someone worth staying for, I'll stay.

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[inhumandog]

as long as you follow through.

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[majorum_pride]

I intend to.

Are you going to look for him?

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[inhumandog]

If he's not dead, I will find him. If he is, I'll take my chances with God.

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[majorum_pride]

I made a promise to someone, once. That if I graduated, and he did not, I would do everything in my power to make sure that he lived. ...He managed to do so without my assistance.

I'm rarely optimistic but I'm fairly certain he and his sister are too stubborn to die.

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[inhumandog]

[Reply comes later.]

I can't thik about that now. I have too much to focus on.