Tide 002

[kaikou_tide]

I recognize that this is a difficult time for all of you. If any of you are injured, please let me know. I can provide healing, provided you have any severed limbs close at hand and they haven't died. If you have been dismembered, please try to refrigerate your limbs as that will make my job significantly easier

Comments

[diverged_fate]

A priest? Here? [Bit of a nervous sound in his usually laid back voice there.] I'm kinda surprised...

[kaikou_tide]

Why's that?

[Glaukir smiles a bit.]

I don't believe I've had the pleasure, mister...?

[diverged_fate]

Doesn't seem much of a religious place.

[Trying for nonchalance again.] Yeah, I don't think we've met. I'm Keats.

[kaikou_tide]

Nice to meet you, Keats.

[Glaukir sucks on his teeth for a moment.]

... that's one way of putting it. It's like any other prison, I suppose.

[diverged_fate]

Yeah, same here...

If it's a prison, it's a lot better than the ones I've been in. [Awkward shrug.] I guess I don't mind it much.

[kaikou_tide]

[Ahhh, another ex-con for Glaukir to be on the same boat with. Hopefully this one won't threaten to kill him, or actually kill him. Glaukir, despite being a near-pacifist, is very much dedicated to not dying.]

If all prisons had food this good or gift shops and forests, I don't think many people would mind, either.

[diverged_fate]

[For better or worse...the people who want him locked away or killed are pretty awful themselves. He doesn't consider himself much better, honestly. And while he's not a pacifist himself, he definitely shares that 'not dying' thing.]

Heh... it's more like a forced vacation. I've never even seen some of this stuff... or just broken versions of it.

Maybe I should mind, but honestly? I kinda like it here.

[kaikou_tide]

Broken versions...?

[Glaukir thinks for a moment.]

Ah, you grew up in a developing nation?

[IE. are you a slumdog?]

[diverged_fate]

[He laughs a little... there's something not so amused in the sound.]

I guess you could call it that. The place...hell...the world I come from is a real mess. Honestly there's not a lot left to develop.

Even though some people disagree... [There's that darker tone again.]

[kaikou_tide]

As long as there are sentient beings, it's always worth developing in a positive direction.

[Hippy 101, your first text.]

[diverged_fate]

One man's positive direction is another man's killing spree. I don't know if I can really agree with you... unless people are really different where you come from.

[kaikou_tide]

Killing spree?

[Glaukir winces.]

That's not the development I was talking about. More like sanitation, schools, medical attention, proper nutrition and a stable, law-abiding government. That's the usual aid my country tries to provide to developing nations.

[diverged_fate]

New social orders get started like that all the time. They might end up with the rest of that eventually... I'm not sure it's worth the price.

It just sounds like we come from really different places. The last time I saw anything like what you just said was...back when I was eight, maybe. Or this place.

[kaikou_tide]

What price do you mean?

[diverged_fate]

Where I come from, there's a group that wants to restore civilization--the way they see it. Eventually (if they get what they want) it might end up like a real society. Schools, health, all of that. It's already sort of like that for their...citizens.

But the price is all the damn blood they've spilled to get it. It doesn't even mean much to them, as long as they get their end result.

[kaikou_tide]

Ahhh. Well, if it's any comfort at all, revolutions are called that because they usually end up right where they were to begin with. Killing one's way to a better world usually means everyone ends up killed.