un: jaycetalis | voice

[hexcope]

[The voice of a mid-thirties man, who sounds absolutely exhausted:]

So.

Who broke it?

I'm not mad. I just want to know. And have a long conversation about respecting shared resources.

[This is, of course, in reference to the now damaged blue trolley line.]

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[odinpusrex]

He is willful, indeed.

[There is a slight derision to the words, though they are otherwise light and measured as everything he says typically is.]

Though that means naught in the face of his growing weakness. He is not immune to the folly he has subjected himself to. Consequence has taken root.

[oblige]

[ Curious, the way Odin speaks of Ramuh. It's a drawn silence which follows, after which his tone is something between reluctant and wary when he ventures to ask— ]

You worry after his health?

[ Is that what this all is? ]

[odinpusrex]

No.

[That implies attachment, a bond, and those are strictly off the table for him.]

Yet, we are aligned in our shared purpose here. His dwindling strength will only hinder us further, and pretending it is otherwise is folly.

[levindicated]

Excuse me?

What the fuck are you on about?

[hexcope]

This is weird that they're talking about you like you're not literally right here, right? On a post about trains, of all places?

[levindicated]

Weird for them or weird in general?

[hexcope]

Weird in general. Average for him.

[levindicated]

Oh, I didn’t know you were so familiar with Barnabas?

[hexcope]

Only takes two conversations to know someone's depth of character when they serve it to you on a silver plate.

[levindicated]

Don’t be too hasty. Sometimes you think you’re looking at the whole thing when you’re only seeing half of it in the dark.

[hexcope]

You know we're talking about the guy who called both of us infirm, like, five minutes ago, right? Pretty sure that means I get to call him an asshole for the rest of my life.

[levindicated]

Oh, he called you infirm as well? He’s a bastard, but he doesn’t usually lie about that sort of thing. So what’s wrong with you?

[hexcope]

[Nothing physical. Yet.]

His misinterpretation of why I'd be concerned over a service that helps people get from one place to another faster meaning I'm unable to get anywhere on my own is what's wrong.

[levindicated]

Sounds like him. Well. Don’t take it too personally. He can teleport, so his opinions on personal transportation are useless.

[hexcope]

Good to know he's an asshole, and a hypocrite.

[odinpusrex]

Quiet yourself, Cidolfus.

[You think he's going to explain himself to you? He's too vaguely annoyed to do that!]

[oblige]

You have not seen what I have.

[ The words are weighted with implication, but Dion doesn't elaborate on what he means by that. ]

It is not for us to decide what a man does with his life.

[ He does, after all, know someone who pressed on despite his pains. Despite his life dwindling away under the weight he'd taken upon himself. It is not an easy thing to watch.

If it troubles Odin to observe such a thing, as Dion suspects it does... Well. He can think on that later. ]

You cannot deny a man's vulnerabilities, nor his will. Be the strength he requires, then.

[odinpusrex]

[There's a notable pause as he allows Dion to say his piece. The implication in the beginning catches him, and part of him wonders when Dion is from, but he does not speak that curiosity aloud.

Whether or not the rest sinks in, touches him in some meaningful way, well... That's to be seen. It isn't that Barnabas hasn't considered such before, in fact, his role has vastly been to endure where others were to weak to do so. Yet, someone like Cidolfus shouldn't be weak like the rest of mankind.

He should be above such folly, or so he once believed. Yet, the greying patches that adorn his body, and the frailty observed in his movements, remind him of the bitter ache of his misplaced judgment. Not to mention the suffering he knows Cidolfus is going through.

Waloed had...ways of dealing with those who showed signs of the curse, after all. Mercy for a life otherwise promised weakness and suffering.]

Enough. You bask in your ignorance as if it were the sun. I do not deny his vulnerabilities...but I shall disparage his foolish will for the consequences it births.

Begone, Bahamut. I need not your precipitous counsel.

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[oblige]

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