I had a conversation with him this week that was less than pleasant. He expressed insistence that those of us here should be focusing on achievements and how he didn't care about winning, as well as how he viewed those who died as "fine anyway". If he thought such a stunt would get him what he wanted, he's cunning enough to pull it off.
He isn't entirely wrong... In a place where the dead still speak to us, when we've been promised that they'll return... then one has to ask, what are the true "stakes" in all of this?
There was quite a point made about that in Key Nueve. Death is cheap, but inevitable... yet, here we still are. The same could be said for nearly every participant here, I should think.
[ glances at her. then, slightly more kindly; ]
Do you have something you're striving for here, Kate? Or simply the will to return home?
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Date: 2025-07-06 04:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-07-06 04:36 am (UTC)[ there's a very slight hesitance in his tone. ]
I had a conversation with him this week that was less than pleasant. He expressed insistence that those of us here should be focusing on achievements and how he didn't care about winning, as well as how he viewed those who died as "fine anyway". If he thought such a stunt would get him what he wanted, he's cunning enough to pull it off.
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Date: 2025-07-06 04:41 am (UTC)He isn't entirely wrong... In a place where the dead still speak to us, when we've been promised that they'll return... then one has to ask, what are the true "stakes" in all of this?
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Date: 2025-07-06 04:50 am (UTC)[ glances at her. then, slightly more kindly; ]
Do you have something you're striving for here, Kate? Or simply the will to return home?
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Date: 2025-07-06 04:51 am (UTC)And... I want to protect everyone else's "endings," too.
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Date: 2025-07-06 04:55 am (UTC)no subject
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