011 ❀ Scratch your Name into the fabric of this World before you Go

[floreatnoctem]

Memento mori- remember that you will die.

[Chidori's voice is quiet, somber as always, but there's a lack of the usual note of resignation in her voice, a spare bit of determination.]

I don't... make speeches, usually. And I haven't kept up with whatever you've all been saying here, so if someone has said this before...

[Feel free to ignore it, is the implication.]

In any case, the main thing to remember is that we're all going to die. Permanently, I suppose I should say- and it isn't that big a deal, in the grand scheme of things. We're not real, and I think by this point it should be obvious that the 'circumstances' under which we were supposedly brought here are a lie. Convoluted, well-crafted and well-enforced, but a lie nonetheless. I can only presume the dead versions of our worlds are programmed into us when we 'leave' and 'return', but that doesn't matter either. As I said, it doesn't matter that we will die...

But what will matter is what we each do before then.

So regardless of what they put us through, regardless of how we are 'punished'- because that's no more real than anything else, really- we have a year, right? The time I've had here is more than I was supposed to anyway- I've been ready to die for a long time.

So take my advice, and live so you won't have any regrets in the end.



After all, what's the point in holding anything back anymore?

Comments

[Text] That's true..I just keep sighing and laughing at it though. ^^;

[tohko_amano]

I am pretty sure if that's what I think about Dax. Now, I don't know what sort of person he might have been when the Tower was in it's early days or what he was like when people first came here. I only arrived in October when he had already been known for helping out the residents. But, I can say for certain that he wasn't that kind of person when I arrived here.

As for getting caught..if you're talking about his death, have you thought that he was simply outranked when he pulled a very interesting scheme in trying to kill Ruana? Or that he sacrificed himself so that some of the residents might actually rise up in his place? Death spurs people sometimes, even though I hate to admit it. Perhaps he saw it as a good was of getting some people here to act..even though I don't quite like suicidal acts like that.

[..At the last part, Tohko sighed as she typed.]

And perhaps Jason doesn't know everything about this Tower. He's a mechanic, not a worldhopper or a world restorer. I admit, the chance of us being able to do so is very slim, now that Ruana is pissed, but if we do have that chance, I would like to just immobilize her or restrain her so that we could fill in whatever blanks we still have before we kill her. It's foolish to kill a general or a scientist without getting what he knows first.