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[last_kodiak]

[Warden Filter, minus Eddie]

Blood and potential murders. Really. One would think that you would be more observant of these things. [Oh Tyr. So caring.]

I need a way to get information that might have been forgotten or hidden. A way that doesn't involve any...supernatural... tampering with the mind.

[Private to Jim]

I'm going to tell you a story.

Comments

Private - INSTANT ALARM BELLS FOR THAT, TYR Not that he'll show it.

[raisedinabox]

A story?

All right, I'm comfortable.

Private - Juuuuuuuust changing tactics since Jim can't keep up anymore!

[last_kodiak]

Would you rather me tell you in person...or over the journals? It's a good story, really.

Private - JIM....IS SO CONFUSED BY THIS, TYR :CCC

[raisedinabox]

I...

[Pause]

I have no preference? Whichever format you'd prefer is fine with me.

Private - HE SHOULD BE

[last_kodiak]

There was a boy. Perhaps six or seven. His father takes him to the top of a cliff and makes him look down the seven foot drop. After leaving him there, the father stands at the bottom and holds his arms up to the boy.

'Come down,' he says. 'Jump down and I'll catch you.' The boy looks uncertain, but he jumps anyway. The father steps back and the boy falls to the ground, covered in bruises and scrapes.

'In this life, never trust anyone,' he tells his son.

Private

[raisedinabox]

Hm.

I think you may have oversold that a little. It's an interesting fable though; why tell me it?

Private

[last_kodiak]

Perhaps.

I want you to tell me why I could have possibly wanted to tell you that.

Private

[raisedinabox]

There are all kinds of reasons why you could have wanted to tell me it. Maybe you wanted to give me a flash of personal insight into yourself. To tell me that you trust no one, or to warn me not to trust you. It could be a segue into asking more questions about my own family, it could be you're trying to pass it on as a piece of advice, or you could just be trying to provoke discussion.

I couldn't tell you which yet. That's why I asked.

Private

[last_kodiak]

Let's go for the last suggestion at the moment, since you seem to be unable to keep up with anything else besides a discussion.

Private

[raisedinabox]

I'm sorry you're so offended by involuntary muscle spasms, it's not as if I've been collapsing from exhaustion.

[Yet.]

Private

[last_kodiak]

That wasn't the point of the discussion. [He's just mad that you're not MAKING PROGRESS.]

Private

[raisedinabox]

All right, so what was the point of the discussion? That I should trust no one? [Yes, well... SORRY DAD.]

Private

[last_kodiak]

We haven't had the discussion yet. I just told you the story. Other than your belief it was oversold, what did you think?

Private

[raisedinabox]

Hm. I think it said more about the Father than it did about the rest of the world. If someone proves himself to be untrustworthy, then tells you that everyone else is as well, then why believe him without question?

Re: Private

[last_kodiak]

A good point. But think of the bond a child has with his father. Would you question your father if he told you such a thing at that young age?

Private

[raisedinabox]

I'm not sure. I think at that age I may not have been analytical enough to understand that in order to really listen to my father I would have to question him when he told me that.

Private

[last_kodiak]

Exactly. When would you start to question your father?