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The sun has returned.
The 'Sun' has not.
[He places an odd emphasis on 'sun,' and there's another period of silence. The camera is aimed at the window, at the sky outside.]
Without the Sun, [the emphasis again] there should be no Moon.
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I wonder.
[MORE SILENCE.]
What does darkness mean to you?
The 'Sun' has not.
[He places an odd emphasis on 'sun,' and there's another period of silence. The camera is aimed at the window, at the sky outside.]
Without the Sun, [the emphasis again] there should be no Moon.
[...]
I wonder.
[MORE SILENCE.]
What does darkness mean to you?
[And the tone denotes offhandedness, as though briefly interested in speaking while terribly distracted.]
Mm... darkness, as we experienced recently, is what the human mind perceives as the absence of light due, in reality, to a deficiency thereof. This concept of darkness is more aptly a deficiency of photons.
[The sound of chewing, and perhaps he is just a bit bored. Despite a distaste for socialization, three months of solitude seems to have bolstered his endurance. That and he does miss philosophizing with Light.]
And you, the meaning?
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As you say it, darkness would be the lack of light rather than a substance of its own.
[Another short silence.]
For myself? [A quiet 'hmph.'] A domain.
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That said, being that darkness needn't be dominant to exist indicates that it is the base. Light requires a source. Darkness is the lack thereof; interestingly the canvas of life, in a more romantic sense.
[Listening.]
Elaborate?
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It can be painted over, but with difficulty, then.
[...] In opposition to light.
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You believe it difficult? Mm... you seem to understand the romanticism, no?
[Slow blink.]
I see.
[Not really. Perhaps he's being romantic with his word choice as well.]
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[Does he? ...well, yeah, but he wouldn't be Hades if he didn't talk like this.]
Hmph.
Are you sure?
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I'm not familiar, however.
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Imagine -- with no light, there can be no dark, and vice versa. That much has been spoken before.
When they are against each other, then there is opposition. Simple enough.
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That, and, were there a world in which total darkness existed, there would be no need for a word differentiating the dark from light.
Semantics, yes?
However, in this world, darkness is merely empty space. The concept was artificially created and assigned a name, due to our perceptions.
[And then, as though having failed to consider it, he adds:.]
Are you speaking in a spiritual manner?
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Total darkness is impossible to find here, unless it is created, and that would be most likely impossible.
Your perceptions are all skewed. [Spoken as a simple fact.]
Do you believe in deities?
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[Curious blink.]
Total darkness can be artificially created in a confined space, but this is not relevant to the hypothetical world.
[And the query does answer more questions than his answers. L hums, as though pondering for the first time in his existence.]
Not by default. I acknowledge the possibility, as I also acknowledge the possibility of the existence of other supernatural creatures.
[That said...
Gods of Death do exist; rather, they seem to due to recent. experiences.
Creatures that feed on human lives, somehow, he finds may not be the "gods" so many refer to.]
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[Spoken with the calm assurance of someone who knows, one way or another.]
In a confined space, the darkness will be unseeable to those on the outside. So how would you prove that it is there?
[Hm. Other supernatural creatures.]
Do you keep an open mind?
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[Spoken with the calm indifference of one who would like another cup of coffee-dampened sugar. Which he's getting now.]
Confined spaces need not be inaccessible. That said, even without one witnessing the fact, light would undoubtedly be unable to reach the space.
I do.
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A confined space is not necessary to produce such darkness.
[He makes a low sort of 'hmph' noise.]
What gets inside?
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Oh? Then you believe total darkness is possible now?
[Hum.]
Truths. Knowledge with basis in reality. If one is wondering whether I am open-minded to the point of accepting that which I have no reason to accept, I am not. This is more faith than open-mindedness.
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I haven't said that it isn't.
...ah.
A mind of great use, then, to the public.
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