Who: Alexander Anderson (
judaspaladin ) and Johan Andersen (
thejewelergem )
When: Late at night, Thursday
Where: Anderson's Church
Format: action! (With paragraph intro)
What: Johan and Anderson discuss/argue over the ethics of revenge, Johan is tested in his morality
Warnings: Talks of murder, philosophy, blood possible
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Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, twas grace my fears relieved... )
[He holds out a hand, sort of gesturing to the room.] It's not the best there is. But in Anatole it kind of is.
The front window's probably a little loose. I've never put one in before. [He sounds rather sheepish over the possibility of having given Anderson a rattly window. Which is funny, when you consider he was talking about murder with no compunctions at all.]
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It's beautiful, lad. Dinnae worry about the window.
[He smiles for the lad, to show that this gift means more than anything material has in a long time. The smile fades as he steels himself for what must be done.]
Naew, wha' conclusions have yeh caeme tae?
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I just don't want anyone hurt.
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[He takes a couple steps forward.]
Hurtin' someone else will naet change wha' happened. Yeh have tae know tha, lad.
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It's why the Good Laird gave us free will. We have tae find it in ourselves tae naet hurt oothers, tae prove we are worthy o' His glory.
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He tried to kill Ruby. And me. Maybe she doesn't mean as much to you as she does to me, but he was ready to beat my head in just because I'm not from here. [He flips his fringe up to show a mark, still only partially-healed and leaving behind a real wowzer of a scar. Then he lets it flop back down.] Back home, people like that get put in prison for years. But there aren't any prisons here. Which means there's nothing to stop him from doing it to somebody else, if he decides to.
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Dae yeh ever think tha' he might feel guilty faer wha' he did?
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Ah know tha, lad. Weh are givin' these trials tae test us. Weh have tae let the Laird guide us in these trials. An' while ah dinnae know wha' the Laird wants faer us everytime, [Being in Anatole for example.] Ah dae know tha' the Laird wouldn't want yeh hurtin' someone faer revenge sake.
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If trials are all he had in mind, he could start by not almost killing me.
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The Laird wouldn't give yeh more than yeh can handle, lad. Yeh told meh before tha yeh dealt with terrible, deadly creatures in ..."sand world". How exactly was this encounter different?
[He raises a hand to stop Johan from giving the obvious answer.]
An' dinnae tell meh about how he hurt yer family. Ah get it. Yer family was in joost as much danger in the other place as here, right?
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[Hm, he had been getting somewhere. Perhaps the arguement needed to be grounded in this card game of Johan's.]
The creatures were made by who, exactly?
An' explain this game tae me again.
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They weren't "made" by anything. Pegasus just . . . channeled them, somehow, and painted cards that connected them to my dimension. Some of them . . . it's kind of a chicken-and-egg argument. We can't say if them being . . . born, I guess, causes him to be able to see and make the cards, or if him making the cards causes them to be born, because they're from a different dimension--a few different ones, actually--and most people don't even know it's there, much less have the ability to see them.
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Sae these people whae use these cards...spirits...ack! [He lost where he was going with this, trying to understand the mechanics of extra-dimensional spirits in cards. Some might even call that game witchcraft. Some might call them angels. Something he'll have to ponder on later.]
Wha' dae yeh think yeh'll accomplish ifin' yeh did harm the man? Others are capable o' the same thin'.
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