He was surrounded on all sides by others. Hundreds. Thousands. Formless. Waiting and basking in the love and safety and comfort of their home. Together and focused for one purpose. Hope. Light. Birth.
[ oh confusion has the radiation waves of a bomb from this one. ]
[ because when she listened to the old priest talk about the church, and some times the books - bibles, they were - everything was so old in them. it was hundreds of hundreds of hundreds of years ago, right? which meant.... ]
[ oh. "older than I look~" he'd said... didn't seem to quite cut it. ]
[ unseen her cheeks puff up a bit defensively. the world might be a fair bit flawed, but... they still should not wish for it to end - to wish to take it from those who lived on it. ]
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[completely nonchalant - none of his inner turmoil showing through]
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i thought it was just a story .
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Lots of the weirdest stories about the strangest things have something true about them.
[smiles at her fondly]
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did you write it ?
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I didn't write any of it. Humans did that.
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[ because when she listened to the old priest talk about the church, and some times the books - bibles, they were - everything was so old in them. it was hundreds of hundreds of hundreds of years ago, right? which meant.... ]
[ oh. "older than I look~" he'd said... didn't seem to quite cut it. ]
you are old .
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But I never complain about a bad back!
[laughs, glad that's the part she responded to]
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do you know more of the old stories ?
i never finished the book .
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Be glad you didn't finish it. The ending sucked.
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Some people want it to happen.
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why would they want that .
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You don't need to worry about it, kiddo.
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[ unseen her cheeks puff up a bit defensively. the world might be a fair bit flawed, but... they still should not wish for it to end - to wish to take it from those who lived on it. ]
[ ... ]
... would you tell me more of the story ?
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