Endgame: This Broken Jaw of Our Lost Kingdoms; Part One

[animusmods]

Characters: open to those trapped in cells
Setting: the cells
Format: any
Summary: Those left abandoned in the Tower have some time to speak to each other. In the middle of the room, a clock counts down...
Warnings: general animus endgame warnings

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[warriorscribe]

I think most of us can say the same.

*And it could have been just a little bit better. Could have been a little less in her favor. But no. No, Riki's corpse hadn't been sufficiently destroyed...*

...She still doesn't realize that's why we fight. She can't see what we want as freedom.

[silencetoreason]

The ones in charge never do.

[France sighs, drags the tip of his finger down the barrier.]

Everyone thinks they know what is best. Give anyone power, and they will try to do what they feel is right. Keeping us safe from the silence of death... [His smile, what little of it there was, abruptly fades.] ...by giving us a painful life. If you think of death as an end, it almost makes sense...

[warriorscribe]

*Death as mercy. It is far from new to him, and yet...*

There have been times I've wanted to die. But...I've found that there are usually better answers. There was likely a better solution to her loneliness, as well. Pain can be blinding.