EVE'S HEART

[aprettygirl]

A dark veil slips over you, obscuring your vision; it’s cool and clinging, and blocks out all outside sensation. You drift downward . . . as you do, you grow more and more aware of the pulse of your own heartbeat, until it’s a ringing, unpleasant throb in your ears.

. . . after some time, it’s interrupted by a soft splash, and you feel solid rock underfoot.

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Comments

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[aprettygirl]

"A motivation to tell the truth, I meant."

She sounds bitterly amused: "I have enough duty to live by."

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[mirroredvalue]

Makes more sense, but... duty isn't quite right, either. It has to be something you want to do. There has to be something, right?

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[aprettygirl]

She sets her basket down on the sand.

"I want to travel."

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[mirroredvalue]

Traveling sounds good, yeah. Is there anywhere you want to see, or just wandering the world?

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[aprettygirl]

"It's one and the same, I suppose. I haven't left the Empire in many, many years -- not counting Aather."

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[mirroredvalue]

Hmm.. Star's never left Japan before coming to Aather, so she can't really tell, since there's a lot to see even without leaving a country, but it does sound good to get out for a while if you can.

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[aprettygirl]

"I'd like to get out forever . . ."

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[mirroredvalue]

That's an option too, if there's nothing worth coming back for.

[I won't judge on this at least, since my own judgement states that the vast majority of people aren't worth it.]

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[aprettygirl]

"It's worth coming back for. It just . . . is very fragile . . . when I am in the equation."

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[mirroredvalue]

? That's a weird way of putting it. That makes it sound like it's fragile because you're there?

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[aprettygirl]

"If a country is run by one person who is meant never to disappear, and then they disappear, chaos will ensue."

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[mirroredvalue]

...And there isn't anyone else that can run things? Really? How does one person manage to do everything that needs to be done, anyways?

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[aprettygirl]

She laughs.

"A lot of help, luck, and running around frantically."

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[mirroredvalue]

Still, it seems like a pretty bad system if it falls apart just because one person isn't there.

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[aprettygirl]

"It is."

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[mirroredvalue]

And there's no way to change the system or anything?

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[aprettygirl]

"We're...trying. It's not very..."

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[mirroredvalue]

Not an easy thing to do, yeah... Still, seems weird that it even wound up getting set up like that in the first place? Usually those kinds of things don't really last too long.

[Since... you know, eventually the one person that runs everything dies and then everything collapses.]

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[aprettygirl]

"This one has lasted nine hundred years."

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[mirroredvalue]

nine hundred years and there's still no sign of finding another way of doing things, huh...?

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[aprettygirl]

"It's complicated. The Empress cannot simply die."

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[mirroredvalue]

But the Empress can't do everything. That just doesn't work.

[That's just asking for a breakdown. Trust me, I'm very knowledgeable about breakdowns.]

Still, 900 years is a long time...

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[aprettygirl]

"What do you think she should do?"

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[mirroredvalue]

Well, in the first place, isn't the problem that she's taking too much work, so she doesn't have time for anything else?

A leader doesn't have to be doing everything, just be able to keep track of things and know where to bring people so that they can get the job done. If the leader's doing everything for them, then people just get worse.

[Delegation is important, but I don't quite know the word for that...]

Re: blood (by nightlight)

[aprettygirl]

"And how would you introduce that concept to a people who might not be ready to accept it...?"