"Yes. You're right, you do." Arialla sighed. "There are philosophers from my world who say that pleasure and pain are the same, that either is madness in excess ... At least, so I hear. I don't really follow it all."
When Osozo gestured to themself, Arialla chuckled. "I see. You do stand out."
So the Voice's followers were a family, huh? That sounded ... nice. Though Arialla had also heard of some rather nasty cults that operated on the same principal.
"Good to know. Thank you." Pretty, and catches the light, and brought with her in mind ... It sounded like the Voice and Safrin weren't that different after all -- at least, not in the offerings they sought. No, that was surely an oversimplification.
please don't take my sunshine away
