[ A small laugh escapes him, at the description Yuri provides. ]
We had those as well, where I came from. Sometimes, even now, I think I might be one of them — I died before I arrived in Kenos, after all. Perhaps this is all just a long trial, to see what kind of afterlife we're going to have.
[ He doesn't fully believe in that, but it begs to be said. It'd be a little ironic to him, were that the case, but Tezcatlipoca's presence and role as an arbiter of the dead has him thinking of more than Meridian and Zenith's presence as "war, with a sole victor". ]
No, that is true. I knew when I came to ask Meridians to consider this that... it would be a hard sell. Still, I had to ask on behalf of those who we are making a choice for, one way or another. Whether we vote to preserve the world as-is, or release it... we're still choosing something for them. Neither of our factions are goodly, for doing that.
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We had those as well, where I came from. Sometimes, even now, I think I might be one of them — I died before I arrived in Kenos, after all. Perhaps this is all just a long trial, to see what kind of afterlife we're going to have.
[ He doesn't fully believe in that, but it begs to be said. It'd be a little ironic to him, were that the case, but Tezcatlipoca's presence and role as an arbiter of the dead has him thinking of more than Meridian and Zenith's presence as "war, with a sole victor". ]
No, that is true. I knew when I came to ask Meridians to consider this that... it would be a hard sell. Still, I had to ask on behalf of those who we are making a choice for, one way or another. Whether we vote to preserve the world as-is, or release it... we're still choosing something for them. Neither of our factions are goodly, for doing that.