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[iamwesker]

A legend. The problem with myths and legends is that most of them are meant to teach a lesson while the rest leave a person wondering if good or evil were served in them.

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[red_reporter]

And what happened to the place in the forest?

I have a story to share. There were three people who were lost in the woods. And though they were scared, a kindly old man led them through the woods to a hospital. Horrible things had been done there. A friend of one of the people had gone in and never come out.

The people who had come there were all dead. And in the end, the three razed the building. The secrets died with the building and the not-so kindly old man.

...My friend's name was Kurt. Only three of us walked out of that hospital alive. Me, a man named David, and a girl named Yoko.

[iamwesker]

It's only a story, my dear. Anything you wanted could have happened to it and to the man.

It could have burnt and he could have gone on to fight in the shadow war, trying to be noble and save the world.

It could stand even now, its halls full of things best left to nightmares while he seeks to make more of those places, spread to the world.

It seems that Link will have quite a collection of stories by the end of the day.

[red_reporter]

I think it burned. I know it did. What happened to the man, I don't know and don't care enough to go poking around about. But I doubt he became a noble man.

But hey! I could be talking out of my ass. Who can say?

[iamwesker]

You may be right.

It never stopped anyone else in the city before.

[xxredfieldxx]

Is this a sympathy ploy? An 'It wasn't my fault, I was just doing my job' type of thing?

[iamwesker]

It is a story, Claire. Link was requesting them. Nothing more. Nothing less. How you take it is your decision. That's the point of legends and myths after all.

[xxredfieldxx]

Every myth is based in truth, at least a little bit.

[iamwesker]

Very true, Claire. I'm proud of you. You seem to have learned something. However, do keep in mind that there is a great deal of difference between the sun rising because Apollo is driving his chariot and the Earth's orbit.

[coy_smile]

'John?'

[iamwesker]

That is what the story says his name was.

[coy_smile]

Right. It's a fairly common name, after all.

[iamwesker]

That it is. John from Chicago hardly identifies the man. The story reads that he was a good man in spirit but very wrong for the job he was given.

[Voice]

[theeyeoftruth]

An interesting hero, sir.

[Voice] (aspect switch to dark)

[iamwesker]

Is he?

[Voice]

[theeyeoftruth]

Mm. His story would make for a far better story than all revolving around him.

[Voice]

[iamwesker]

Pity stories are rarely worth hearing and often the results of lies.

[Voice]

[faroresson]

A legend where the 'Hero' just did what he had to do, huh? Rare to find those.

Thanks for sharing.

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[iamwesker]

Was he a hero?

[Voice]

[faroresson]

I'd say he was more the person who did what he felt he had to do, and they can be as heroic to some as they are monstrous to others.

[Voice]

[iamwesker]

He killed a hundred thousand innocent people within a few days. Still think him a hero?