video&voice post

[seaoflames]

[The video flickers on and it's very obvious that the post is intentional. There is a child with cutting gold eyes staring at the camera. Does he not look strangely familiar?

Yet he looks so harmless... How could he be a product of this terrible fog? His one visible eye glances away slowly before looking back at the screen.]

...I have a question. [

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Voice.

[bakingbasil]

[there's some tiredness in this voice, but you won't hear it in the least, aside from as a detached sort of curiousity.]

... You'd have to ask to make it a question.

video;

[flammatory]

Do you know why humans fight?

Voice.

[bakingbasil]

The answers to that would be both situational and rather long, little boy. Don't you know?

video forever; 1/2

[flammatory]

[What comes next from the boy is a whisper.] I'm so tired... so much suffering...

video;

[flammatory]

[A distortion on the screen and suddenly the boy is replaced by... Lavi?] Actually there is a very simple answer to that. Don't you know?

Voice.

[bakingbasil]

[only the slightest pause.]

Oh?

video;

[flammatory]

Foolish creatures, their only desire to cause and create suffering for their kind.

It's almost amusing to watch them as they flounder about... preaching of peace as they put on a public killing for the child thief who snatched an apple from the market. [His lips quirk upward.]

Voice.

[bakingbasil]

... You would say that child's aim was to cause suffering for the apple vendor?

Voice.

[flammatory]

I would say humans are very contradictory creatures, saying one thing and turning around to perform just the opposite.

Voice.

[bakingbasil]

I would say any self-aware creature is like that.

video; 1/2

[flammatory]

Of course you would. A natural response.

video;

[flammatory]

[Then the child returns again.] But we're just like that too! We are just as human! [He shouts not quite at Basil.]

Voice.

[bakingbasil]

[he knows he's not being spoken to, but--]

Even if you weren't, boy, you would act the same way. There isn't a doubt there.

Voice.

[flammatory]

I won't deny that I wouldn't any longer. I can't... living this lie is becoming impossible!

Voice.

[bakingbasil]

[paaause.]

Would you be trying to convince yourself?

video;

[flammatory]

We know what is truth now... and yet we are still struggling to accept it.