Accidental post: The river aflame

[fightingvirtue]

[As the feed clicks on, Ryuubi is at the riverfront, crouching by the water. The river is mostly frozen, but some distance from the shore, a large pile of wood and flammable material has been set ablaze and burns steadily despite the snow. There's a jagged gap in the ice, and the deep dark water shows through

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[the5thdragon]

... Who are you? Playing at Chinese history... Cao Cao loses the fight, and yet in his way wins the war.... But it is in the history of China that no one should reign forever.

[fightingvirtue]

Perhaps it would have. I cannot tell you. Looking at this fire... I cannot tell you if justice or freedom are worth the price of even one life.

[the5thdragon]

Then I'm stuck without the answers I've been searching for once again.

[fightingvirtue]

I'm sorry - I don't measure up to my own legend, I suppose. But that is old news.

[the5thdragon]

Who can measure up to the stories that men tell about them? It might just be impossible.

[fightingvirtue]

Not impossible. Kongming... he is everything that... but he isn't here.

[the5thdragon]

I've lived through a surprising amount in a very short time. And although we can meet legends, I wonder if they could ever be all we make them out to be... or most of the time would we really want them to.