Mithos Yggdrasill (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
imatreenow) wrote2012-12-28 12:46 pm
imatreenow) wrote2012-12-28 12:46 pm
eighteen [action]
[Friday afternoon finds Mithos dragging a granite statue through the streets of Luceti. It will look familiar to those who can claim Aselia as their home world, carved adoringly in the likeness of a young man wielding dual swords. The figure is planted atop a base that bears a plaque engraved with the simple honor, "The Hero Lloyd Irving." All together, it stands at about three and a half feet, scaled down from the original model.
For Mithos, it's a bitter reminder of things that could never have been. Its sudden appearance in his house had been an elbow nudging him sharply in the ribs, an obnoxious stage whisper prompting, "Hey, remember that time all your hopes and dreams were crushed?"
Yes, yes he remembers.
Which is why he had to get rid of it. The first day, he dragged the statue behind the house, let it topple into the river, and watched the determined stony face sink below the surface. The next morning, it found its way back to his living room. Each day, he drags it farther away, and each morning it proudly comes back.
His route today takes him up from the south end of the village through the north end and into the woods. The farther away, the better.]
For Mithos, it's a bitter reminder of things that could never have been. Its sudden appearance in his house had been an elbow nudging him sharply in the ribs, an obnoxious stage whisper prompting, "Hey, remember that time all your hopes and dreams were crushed?"
Yes, yes he remembers.
Which is why he had to get rid of it. The first day, he dragged the statue behind the house, let it topple into the river, and watched the determined stony face sink below the surface. The next morning, it found its way back to his living room. Each day, he drags it farther away, and each morning it proudly comes back.
His route today takes him up from the south end of the village through the north end and into the woods. The farther away, the better.]
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That’s not what I’ve learned, and it's not what I've been taught time and time again. [But here...]
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Will you at least give me the chance to be your friend? Please. One chance. That's all.
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Oooor maybe that would scare him off. She keeps the idea in check.]
But everyone needs friends.
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I don't need anyone here. [Everyone he needs is far away, somewhere he cannot touch.]
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Carefully:] I think you do. Even if you don't want to need them.
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She raises her voice.] If you're not even willing to try, then you'll never know!
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I - [No, apologies wouldn't do her any good. How would saying she was sorry for what others had done make any difference? She took a shaky breath, but remained determined. She wouldn't turn her back on him, not now.] But now you're here. Here, what you want matters. I know they can give us and take away the people we love any second, but don't you see? That's just it. You can choose to be happy while they're here if you want to, or your can choose not to. Either way, it's up to you.
[She pauses, searching his face, hoping she hasn't upset him irreparably. He seemed like he needed a friend so desperately - and she wanted to be that friend.] I just hope you can find away to choose happiness, even if sometimes it hurts. But I promise you...it's worth the hurt.
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There is nothing here for me, and I'm not the one who decides that. [He can pick out so many flaws in everything she said, but he doesn't want to begin - it would only give her an excuse to try to drive her naive beliefs into him.]
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