...good. None of them should have to live with that, when this is over-- though neither should they have to know it even temporarily, nor should they have to fear it happening to them.
[Not just the younger ones, but anyone, though he especially hopes that they'll be left alone the next time someone chooses to act.]
I can only hope she will find peace at the end of this contest, along with anyone else who passes.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Do you think so? I haven't had much practice, but... there are certainly enough people here to use for that.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
[Ishi takes the pencil back up, there, moving on to a new page, and takes a few moments to study Chuuya before he starts to draw.]
I see you still have the same outlook on humility.
no subject
I don't think all that much of my looks. But practice is good for anything.
no subject
[If Chuuya needs to adjust a little bit, he'll let him-- it's early enough, after all.
That's all he says for several moments, but without quite looking up from the page, he says-]
You seem calm enough, after everything.
no subject
[Chuuya pauses for a moment, thoughtful.]
Patience said, if Shiki wants to, she can forget what it felt like to die. That was the thing I was most worried about.
no subject
[Not just the younger ones, but anyone, though he especially hopes that they'll be left alone the next time someone chooses to act.]
I can only hope she will find peace at the end of this contest, along with anyone else who passes.
no subject
[Even if they remember a death that wasn't violent.]
That memory leaves marks even when you're brought back to life.
no subject
[The other swords are proof enough of that, sometimes, particularly the ones who carry memories of their masters' deaths.
He looks up properly there, though, expression more somber.]
I can also imagine that even if one doesn't remember it, the experience may leave other marks regardless.
no subject
[Though he'll offer no elaboration on that.]
But erasing those marks might be too much even for gods.
no subject
[Chuuya doesn't elaborate, and so he doesn't ask; talking about it is up to him, Ishi thinks.]
But even such unpleasant things can become more a part of us than we know, and forgetting may not always lead to being any happier.
no subject
[Worthwhile to take those marks and keep them with them for the rest of their lives.]
no subject
[A sigh, and-]
I understand the need for such a contest between them, but- I do not believe anything makes it right to take a life.
no subject
[but.]
no subject
[he shakes his head, there.]
We can only do what we're able. Perhaps there will still be some way to keep others from following suit.
no subject
[pretty much.]
no subject
[A sigh, and-]
Not that it will do much when we aren't conscious, but we can still try.
no subject