002 - Audio

[gift_of_earth]

I'm getting tired of people asking after the hawks. If you really want to know, myself and a friend released them. Chaining birds up so you can use them is a travesty and I won't allow it while I'm here. They deserve to fly free and hunt as they will.

You're welcome for the taste of freedom in this dreary place.

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[ audio ]

[corvusclipped]

[ Here, Iramaat, have some delighted giggling from your partner in "crime". ]

It's kinda funny to see people getting their pants all in a twist about it, like it's something bad.

[ audio ]

[gift_of_earth]

It's almost as if people aren't always the most important creatures on the earth, hmm?

[Iramaat chuckles.]

If they find this so disturbing to their routine, perhaps they'd like to spend a few days living in my woods....

[ audio ]

[corvusclipped]

When you're feeling up to it, we should probably poke around the grounds some more and see if there's anything else we can take care of. I mean, this place is big, yeah? There's probably more than just a hawkery.

[ Crow sounds excited at the prospect of setting more animals free. Aside from the morality of it, she's also just plain bored. ]

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[gift_of_earth]

More than likely. Certainly worth investigating....

[missmimmi]

Oh, good. I was afraid it was the beginning of something terrible.

[At least they aren't cardinals.]

[gift_of_earth]

Hardly. They're hawks. Of course they're going to want to eat.

[missmimmi]

It is not the first time that a swarm of... hungry birds appeared as a catalyst for something greater.

[gift_of_earth]

Really? How unfortunate.

[audio]

[angleofscience]

[What was the point? Not that allowing creatures made to fly to do that freely was wrong on its own, or anything, but some part of that reasoning didn't add up.]

... How would releasing the birds, no matter the inherent ethics in such an action, give others who cannot fly a taste of freedom?

[Not to mention there's a ceiling and walls to this 'freedom'. Jetfire hit his helm (okay, no it was his boosters, they stick up above his helm) on it earlier.]

[audio]

[gift_of_earth]

You honestly don't feel it? Not even a little when you look on wild things? There's something beautiful in it.

[Your attitude is so weird.]

[audio]

[angleofscience]

... Mmmh... I'm unsure what reaction you're asking for. Beings merely performing the function they were born for and into isn't, in itself, worth of any feeling of awe, and I assume the hawks were kept where they were for a reason?

[The hawks were beautiful, yes, but anything living was, no matter if it was 'wild' or not, and he's facinated by organic creatures, but at the same time... so fragile.]

I can fly for myself, and as I understand it there's animals kept in other parts of the Keep that you haven't released. Is the point that the hawks can fly, or that they aren't... domesticated?

[That was the concept, and not just word, yes?]

[audio]

[gift_of_earth]

What I don't understand is how people can look at an animal that has had all its spirit taken from it - caged and leashed and forced to work or serve - and think it good or still think themselves free while they do it.

[Hmm.]

I suppose I am against all domestication. It iks me. It goes counter to my nature. It is... an ugly thing. So I will get to the others, eventually.

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[thii2ii22tupiid]

they aren't free, you ju2t gave them a biiger cage.

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[gift_of_earth]

Better a bigger cage than a smaller one, then.

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[thii2ii22tupiid]

iit2 2tiill not beiing free.

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[gift_of_earth]

Compared to being hooded and tied to a stick?

[audio]

[needsnobottle]

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Except I didn't taste anything.

[audio]

[gift_of_earth]

Perhaps you should try harder.

[audio]

[needsnobottle]

[There's a smacking sound--maybe she's licking her lips?]

Wait, maybe...nope, that's just my toothpaste. [And here she mumbles.] Which I'm nearly out of...

[audio]

[gift_of_earth]

What is toothpaste?

[Seriously, what is it?]