Second Mercy - Video; after Darkness

[returnsmagic]

[ The view shows the city after Dark, illuminated by its sparse, lukewarm lights that dotted the streets and the buildings. It seems like the recording device is floating in the air, thanks to this view. There is a heavy, repeating noise, like massive wings flapping in a steady, rhythmic beat.

The NV's owner is not seen, but he speaks, a heavy, clearly inhuman voice. ]

So much despair and bloodshed in these past nights. By evil or by evil's victims, it is hard to say.

In some ways I miss the evil of home, where it is clear where and how to fight. There the causalities, and they are either missed or celebrated in its demise. But here, the difference is not as so clear, even to me, who has lived for so long. A shame of my fault. As a son of Paladine, the god of justice and all that is good, I should have hold the wisdom to know the difference.

But I do not, it bothers me. So tell me this: how can you tell?

Comments

[summing_it_up]

...Wow. I never really thought about it that way.

[returnsmagic]

Like I said, it is the gesture that makes everything worthwhile.

[summing_it_up]

It- it does.

I never thought I'd be told this from a dragon, though.

[returnsmagic]

Wisdom is not an innate force. It must grow, like a sapling, into something great and can reach to the heavens.

[summing_it_up]

I wish I heard something like this more often, actually. But...it doesn't seem like there's enough time for that.

[returnsmagic]

Ah, time. It is a foe to many.

[ Except not to Aurican, who is only at the comfortable old age of six thousand years old. ]

Then the first order of business in gaining wisdom is to simple stand still.

[summing_it_up]

Stand still?

...But I am standing still. Unless you mean watching and learning from everything.

[returnsmagic]

You are standing still because I caught your interest.

Don't tell me you don't have any interests that pertained to you.

[summing_it_up]

I...do. It just. Never fit with any of the interests the other Vikings had.

[returnsmagic]

Then do not fit your interests to theirs. My brothers never cared for my likening for meditation, history, or magic, and I never did expect them too. I didn't even obtained my own lair, filled with treasure. Some say this is very un-dragonlike behavior, but I do not mind.

[summing_it_up]

Huh. Treasure in a lair? That's...hard to imagine. [He shrugs.] I'm still surprised that your interests are really normal. Un-Vikinglike - just like some of mine.

...I don't know if I can fully commit into this, though.

[returnsmagic]

Some things are more universal than others.

There is no commitment necessary. It just simply occurs.

[summing_it_up]

Then it should be interesting to see that change in motion, huh?

[returnsmagic]

It would.

[summing_it_up]

Something to look forward to. Definitely.