[ it's both a truth of her age and a choice she makes to listen and look to her elders for insight into the world they share; she's more aware of doing so these days than the more self-focused, self-centered child she'd allowed herself to be before. she couldn't be apathetic to the world around her. her problems weren't meant for anyone else to solve for her. the people she wants to protect are people she must make efforts for on her own.
it isn't the same as being isolated, or thinking she can't be assisted. self-reliance is not shutting ones self down and away. working together achieves more than what one individual achieves on their own. to her, that's fact. by extension, CERES is a company, a group of people who work together to some end or means. it doesn't mean they all believe the same thing about what's happening. they don't all even need to know. the same could be said for the flamines. were they a unified society, everyone sharing in the same destructive values, or were they not? they took contracts. they followed their own rules. CERES did the same. good and bad had little to do with the whole, and much to do with the specifics and the point of view.
so she listens, and she absorbs what stahn says, and she nods, because she doesn't have to like it or to entirely agree to see the sense in what he communicates. it might be possible. the concept of crossing a line in such a way as to be unforgivable. she even considers that they could be collateral damage along the path to some achievement none of them saw; no mean spirited harm done, simply incomprehensible harm, a harm that those who suffered it were left in ignorance to its occurring. ]
If it's out of greed... then yeah. That is unforgiveable.
[ she tucks her chin in to her chest, eyes falling to the ground. the ache that she feels in her chest, the way she feels both constricted and empty, is hard to swallow. there's too much grief for a world missing and gone and the sheer scale of it, and so many others, being unable to register in her mind. too immense. too many trillions of lives, probably. ]
All the people in CERES aren't necessarily bad people. All the people with the Flamines aren't either. Neither are the element spirit-gods. [ she forces her hands to let go, stretching her fingers out as she looks up, wishing the world were simpler and accepting that it isn't. ] Understanding why... I don't know when we will, but we need to know more before judging people for what we don't understand. If it's true, it won't make it forgivable, but... it may be something we need to accept. Then work on changing the reality, however we can. Right?
[ even if it's all tied up in greed and greedy, destructive intent, there's bound to be a way through the aftermath. right? ]
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it isn't the same as being isolated, or thinking she can't be assisted. self-reliance is not shutting ones self down and away. working together achieves more than what one individual achieves on their own. to her, that's fact. by extension, CERES is a company, a group of people who work together to some end or means. it doesn't mean they all believe the same thing about what's happening. they don't all even need to know. the same could be said for the flamines. were they a unified society, everyone sharing in the same destructive values, or were they not? they took contracts. they followed their own rules. CERES did the same. good and bad had little to do with the whole, and much to do with the specifics and the point of view.
so she listens, and she absorbs what stahn says, and she nods, because she doesn't have to like it or to entirely agree to see the sense in what he communicates. it might be possible. the concept of crossing a line in such a way as to be unforgivable. she even considers that they could be collateral damage along the path to some achievement none of them saw; no mean spirited harm done, simply incomprehensible harm, a harm that those who suffered it were left in ignorance to its occurring. ]
If it's out of greed... then yeah. That is unforgiveable.
[ she tucks her chin in to her chest, eyes falling to the ground. the ache that she feels in her chest, the way she feels both constricted and empty, is hard to swallow. there's too much grief for a world missing and gone and the sheer scale of it, and so many others, being unable to register in her mind. too immense. too many trillions of lives, probably. ]
All the people in CERES aren't necessarily bad people. All the people with the Flamines aren't either. Neither are the element spirit-gods. [ she forces her hands to let go, stretching her fingers out as she looks up, wishing the world were simpler and accepting that it isn't. ] Understanding why... I don't know when we will, but we need to know more before judging people for what we don't understand. If it's true, it won't make it forgivable, but... it may be something we need to accept. Then work on changing the reality, however we can. Right?
[ even if it's all tied up in greed and greedy, destructive intent, there's bound to be a way through the aftermath. right? ]