Aurora - Rean Heart

[awakenerd]

You float in a void--darkness around you, above, below, in every direction, nothing. You stand on nothing, you even breathe nothing. But you do not feel in danger, you are not suffocating. You are simply existing in… Nothing.

Crow | Towa | Dusk | 80H | Rufus

Comments

Re: Dusk

[schrodingerscockroach]

They were kids. And not enough of a threat for their dumbass decisions.

Where's the woman and kid?

Re: Dusk

[awakenerd]

He shrugs.

"Where are those men you subdued?"

They're gone. The blood remains though. On the ground and on your knife. The distant sounds of fighting have gone quiet. It's just you and this man in the silence and smell of smoke.

Re: Dusk

[schrodingerscockroach]

....


[Its like showing up at Iota's place all over again.]

Goddamn magic bullshit.

Re: Dusk

[awakenerd]

His chuckle is deep and warm.

"That is a way of putting it. But you have made choices, and even if, in a fashion, those you saved and those you spared were not, strictly, real, your choices have real effects."

Re: Dusk

[schrodingerscockroach]

....am I in a trial? Did I get summoned to a trial in my sleep?

Re: Dusk

[awakenerd]

"And if you were?"

Re: Dusk

[schrodingerscockroach]

It affects my actions? If those soldiers had been older, more experienced, more of a threat, I probably would have killed them. Because they're way past getting a benefit of a doubt on just being stupid and more of a threat.

Different circumstances, different actions.

Re: Dusk

[awakenerd]

"You are a soldier. Killing is part of the job. I doubt any would find fault with that.

Yet you wished to spare those that you could."

Re: Dusk

[schrodingerscockroach]

I became a soldier to protect people. That's the difference between a soldier and a killer.

I didn't need to kill them to protect. There's a good chance they got into an army without thinking it through or not having a choice.

Now? They'll think twice and it'll be a long time before they're redraftable. If they're really malicious, same thing, just for different personal goals.

Re: Dusk

[awakenerd]

The man just smiles as he listens.

"Indeed. Killing to protect is something of an oxymoron. But one all soldiers must come to grips with.

But I doubt we need tell each other what we both know. What will you do now?"

Re: Dusk

[schrodingerscockroach]

Depends entirely on what you're protecting. Its a pretty effective tool if you have specific people you're protecting.

You never answered if this was a trial.

Re: Dusk

[awakenerd]

"Frankly I do not know why you are here."

Re: Dusk

[schrodingerscockroach]

So its not a trial?

Re: Dusk

[awakenerd]

"As I said, I do not know. Why you are here or how you came to be here, or, indeed, what you will do now that you are here."

Re: Dusk

[schrodingerscockroach]

Looking for a direct answer was all. You've been real evasive.

Where is here?

Re: Dusk

[awakenerd]

The man chuckles again.

"Where your apprehensions have taken you, it seems. You are not a fan of the dark."

Re: Dusk

[schrodingerscockroach]

I have no problem with the dark.

[Its the not moving isolation that's terrible.]

Re: Dusk

[awakenerd]

"My apologies. The nothing."

Re: Dusk

[schrodingerscockroach]

What's the deal woth that? You still haven't explained where I am.

Re: Dusk

[awakenerd]

"You are, if you'll pardon my phrasing, within my son."

Re: Dusk

[schrodingerscockroach]

....one, I'm sure there are several ways to phrase that.

Two, what.

Re: Dusk

[awakenerd]

"That is where you are, I am afraid. As I have said, I'm really not quite sure how you made it in here."

Re: Dusk

[schrodingerscockroach]

How does that even make sense?! What does that even mean?!?!

Re: Dusk

[awakenerd]

"You are within the essence of his soul, as it were."

Re: Dusk

[schrodingerscockroach]

.... [That should sound like bullshit, why doesn't it?]

And that means what exactly?