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[shoubai]

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Comments

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

they damn well better be

[ he understands, he thinks, why heine chose to turn away. capable as they are, accustomed to strife and terror, it doesn't chance the simple truth of what they are. kids. children. scared.

it doesn't stop the frustration. how long would it take to teach these kids empathy? were they even capable?? ]

Re: T E X T

[whizbangs]

I understand why he did it
He's scared of failing her
Because something bad happens to her
In their future

[she dies. carol still hasn't let herself think too much about it, because... it's too much to think about. on top of everything. she can't.]

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

i know
i heard from nill
she dies
there are better ways to approach it

Re: T E X T

[whizbangs]

Yeah
Scared kid, though
We've got too many of those these days

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

the life they come from is a sad one, for being so full of terror
for making them like they are

Re: T E X T

[whizbangs]

It's like a sickness, that place
Nill told me some of what they do to people there
Always kids, she said
It's some kind of miracle that ours are even as put-together as they are

[ours. hers. that's what it feels like, bizarrely, painfully, and anyway none of them have anyone else (his brother is dead--)]

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

only the strong survive in those circumstances
we have to teach them how to be stronger

Re: T E X T

[whizbangs]

I don't know if I can do that for them
My kind of strength comes from hope
They don't believe there is any