I can't fault you for trying. I find myself doing much of the same. [ nyeh ] This was...routine, for you all at the longer experiences, wasn't it? As routine as something like this could be.
A little too much so, honestly. [She leaves the bobble head alone for now, pushing it softly back into the shelf.] I only lived about halfway through, but even then it was just awful. How you could come to expect the worst. Then numb yourself over, and march into a trial the next day.
I don't like it. How it makes Death feel cheap. Sure, it's something that has to happen to everyone, but it's not meant to be so flippant.
[ ah... the more she talks - especially as she reaches the end, the more strohl's expression sharpens, but it's not negative at all. it's this deep, immediate click of understanding, of a statement that resonates. ]
I couldn't have said so better myself, your highness. [ measured, but there's an intensity to it, a simmer that comes on the recognition of injustice. ] Losing sight of the weight of what it means for someone to lose a life is a dangerous road to walk. That this entire thing seems a "game", a form of some sort of entertainment, to whomever is in charge is a damned disgrace.
...I've not the same experiences of time that you all have, but I see where you're coming from. [ a pause. and then, softer - ] And for what it's worth, I'm sorry you had to experience it, too.
Oh, don't be. I mean, we're all in this terrible thing together. And I don't know that I would have handled what you went through in that shorter round any better than I did my own. None of it's easy.
[She smiles, if wanly. Then huffs and looks down at her feet.]
Really, though, the only thing I want to do is find these auditors and give them a taste of their own gross medicine. If they want to perfect this "formula", they can do it themselves.
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...As pointless as it is to look for clues now, trying to do anything else always feels like a huge waste of time.
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I can't fault you for trying. I find myself doing much of the same. [ nyeh ] This was...routine, for you all at the longer experiences, wasn't it? As routine as something like this could be.
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I don't like it. How it makes Death feel cheap. Sure, it's something that has to happen to everyone, but it's not meant to be so flippant.
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I couldn't have said so better myself, your highness. [ measured, but there's an intensity to it, a simmer that comes on the recognition of injustice. ] Losing sight of the weight of what it means for someone to lose a life is a dangerous road to walk. That this entire thing seems a "game", a form of some sort of entertainment, to whomever is in charge is a damned disgrace.
...I've not the same experiences of time that you all have, but I see where you're coming from. [ a pause. and then, softer - ] And for what it's worth, I'm sorry you had to experience it, too.
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[She smiles, if wanly. Then huffs and looks down at her feet.]
Really, though, the only thing I want to do is find these auditors and give them a taste of their own gross medicine. If they want to perfect this "formula", they can do it themselves.