531 Monstrosity & Morality: Dividing Lines of the Self and Other, Section 4

[idolpro]

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Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[scattershot]

Please, don't worry about me. I'd be glad to talk. If it helps you, even a little... well, I would never call that time wasted. And, even if there's nothing to be done about a situation, it still helps to be sure of how you feel about it.

Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[libraryofbabel]

"Thank you, well—"

She pauses, thinking over her words.

"I suppose you could say..." She clicks her tongue, lightly. "I thought I always knew... what I wanted to do with my existence. But I've lost... so many things that I counted on."

Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[scattershot]

Oh, I am sorry. That's never easy. Loss... it changes things, doesn't it?

[She smiles, a little sadly.]

It's funny. Sometimes it makes it so, so easy, to realize what it is you really need. But only sometimes. Sometimes all it it does is make it even more confusing than it was before... it's difficult, isn't it, finding your way?

Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[libraryofbabel]

"It... is a lot more difficult than it used to be," she says. "There was only one path—to help others, to protect them..."

Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[scattershot]

That's all I've ever wanted, too.

[It is difficult.

[She's starting to fear it might be beyond her.]

But my hands are small.

Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[libraryofbabel]

"And... there are so many people who don't understand."

Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[scattershot]

I can't promise that I will. But I'll do my very best to try.

Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[libraryofbabel]

"Ah, well—I think you will, since you've been kind. It's just that—I lost my family a long time ago, you know. It's been nearly a century."

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[scattershot]

A century...?

[She doesn't look all that much older than I do.]

Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[scattershot]

I'm sorry. You still look so young. But...

I don't think I'll ever stop missing Grandfather. I don't think I'll ever feel easy about his fate. Knowing what it is that befell him--

[She breaks off.]

It's cruel. It will be cruel a hundred years hence. I simply won't be able to feel the sting of it, any more.

Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[libraryofbabel]

"Ah, that is... I'm a vampire, so I stopped aging at the moment I died..."

She shakes her head. "I'm sorry for your loss. I don't know what happened, but it's clear he was dear to you, and that... what happened was an injustice. There's so much cruelty in the world—in any world."