Then I'm glad for the war having ended. If that's any consolation at all.
[He pauses, following her gaze down to the figures in the arena below. Weapons clack and clash, voices at a distance sound so small. Funny, how the intensity of what an individual might feel, down in that ring, seems so diluted up here.
An idle observation, while he processes what to say next.]
Though I understand that memories of a hard-fought war are not so easily written off as 'finished'. Experiences that linger with a human mind long after it's done. And being brought here, in a place full of unknowns, sent off to worlds where there might yet be fighting still, I can't imagine you really feel at peace with any of it.
Though please correct me if I'm assuming too much.
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[He pauses, following her gaze down to the figures in the arena below. Weapons clack and clash, voices at a distance sound so small. Funny, how the intensity of what an individual might feel, down in that ring, seems so diluted up here.
An idle observation, while he processes what to say next.]
Though I understand that memories of a hard-fought war are not so easily written off as 'finished'. Experiences that linger with a human mind long after it's done. And being brought here, in a place full of unknowns, sent off to worlds where there might yet be fighting still, I can't imagine you really feel at peace with any of it.
Though please correct me if I'm assuming too much.