Maea
And it feels like fear
Like I'll disappear
Like I'll disappear
Sipping her tea, Maea took a moment to process the issue. She caught Noah's look at the question and almost snorted out loud - yeah, she was that behind, so sue her - though she realized how serious he was and cocked her head aside thoughtfully.
"Whose good?" she wondered, playing the devils advocate for a moment. "Once, people here questioned the arrival of outlanders in the same way. They ate our food and broke our rules, forced us to go where we never had before. The barrier was erected for a purpose, and yet... due to the arrival of these foreign entities, it was brought down." Stirring the tea, Maea watched the Halovian under her lashes. Knew that Halo too had felt the touch of outlanders, for good and for bad.
"I wonder... if we had erased the new things as they appeared, perhaps the barrier would still be standing. No war, no blight, no Voice - of course, everything IN here would still be slowly dying, too. For the greater good."
It was hard to keep bitterness away, and equally hard to remain neutral in an issue she knew little about. Of course, she wouldn't be the one deciding anything. But as a born Abandoned, it did rankle that anything different automatically got labeled as bad and problematic just because it wasn't directly benefitting everyone.
Slender shoulders rose and fell, softly shrugging off whatever point she might have been making. Maybe it really was bad this time; she couldn't know.
"Is there something commoners like me should bear in mind? I'm afraid there's nothing I can do to actually help..." Even if she had been so inclined. Which... Truthfully, Maea wasn't sure she was. What did she owe the world? It had rejected her many times already. Abandoned. Ascended... But that certainly wasn't Noah's fault, and she didn't want to take her problems out on him.
"Whose good?" she wondered, playing the devils advocate for a moment. "Once, people here questioned the arrival of outlanders in the same way. They ate our food and broke our rules, forced us to go where we never had before. The barrier was erected for a purpose, and yet... due to the arrival of these foreign entities, it was brought down." Stirring the tea, Maea watched the Halovian under her lashes. Knew that Halo too had felt the touch of outlanders, for good and for bad.
"I wonder... if we had erased the new things as they appeared, perhaps the barrier would still be standing. No war, no blight, no Voice - of course, everything IN here would still be slowly dying, too. For the greater good."
It was hard to keep bitterness away, and equally hard to remain neutral in an issue she knew little about. Of course, she wouldn't be the one deciding anything. But as a born Abandoned, it did rankle that anything different automatically got labeled as bad and problematic just because it wasn't directly benefitting everyone.
Slender shoulders rose and fell, softly shrugging off whatever point she might have been making. Maybe it really was bad this time; she couldn't know.
"Is there something commoners like me should bear in mind? I'm afraid there's nothing I can do to actually help..." Even if she had been so inclined. Which... Truthfully, Maea wasn't sure she was. What did she owe the world? It had rejected her many times already. Abandoned. Ascended... But that certainly wasn't Noah's fault, and she didn't want to take her problems out on him.
Gets so hard to steer
Yet I go on
Yet I go on
