She listens, face impassive, as Zariah describes the life of a Halovian to a Halovian. It’s hard to keep the sneer off her face listening, though she does. The story Zariah tells is one she knows very well. It’s the reason she’s furious, the reason she doesn’t believe that Zariah actually understands. Because yes, everything she describes can and does happen. Weaver has lived through the scenario, though not even as bad. They were cold but not tired. Err or had full access to his magic. He just didn’t have time.It’s the last bit, the belief that Zariah could have, beyond a shadow of a doubt, stopped the ursur. That’s the part that she struggles with. Because you can’t predict what’s going to happen, and sometimes it doesn’t matter how good you are, how well positioned you are.
” I don’t need a lecture about my own home,” she says, her voice cool though not icy. ”And I don’t disagree with your logic. I only disagree that you are so very confident we weren’t in danger. We were. I am not suggesting you are not powerful, but rather that things in Halo go south within the time it might take you to blink. That is the sort of thing you understand growing up here.” That’s her point. Because it seems to her there are other ways to train for that lesson without risking the lives of novice students. There are other ways to learn to survive without dancing with death. It is something they do daily simply by living here, and it isn’t necessarily the thing she wants to do needlessly.
” I don’t need a lecture about my own home,” she says, her voice cool though not icy. ”And I don’t disagree with your logic. I only disagree that you are so very confident we weren’t in danger. We were. I am not suggesting you are not powerful, but rather that things in Halo go south within the time it might take you to blink. That is the sort of thing you understand growing up here.” That’s her point. Because it seems to her there are other ways to train for that lesson without risking the lives of novice students. There are other ways to learn to survive without dancing with death. It is something they do daily simply by living here, and it isn’t necessarily the thing she wants to do needlessly.
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-- ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies --
Quote by Charles Dickens
