二十三 ; èr shí sān

[getsomesleep]

[Several drops of ink appear on the paper before Huo finally gets to writing - he's hesitating a great deal. His script, too, is slow and cautious.]

While I do not wish to associate myself with anonymous writers of dubious origins, [another long pause, another ink drop] if searchers are currently creating some effect that they are unaware of

[His pen lingers here, and lingers, until finally with a dash of ink, he erases the previous sentence and quickly scribbles something else:]

You are not free of a prison if its roof falls down on your head.

Comments

This is not a comment.

[crimson-seeker.livejournal.com]

[Huo will get some side-eye when he gets home, but Hawk is. Not. Saying a word. He agreed to this madness. In a way.]

[longnosedliar.livejournal.com]

No. You'd be dead, but you'd be free.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

I do not believe that there is freedom to be found in death; perhaps that is a fault of mine.

[longnosedliar.livejournal.com]

I think there is. I don't want to die, but no one can control you if you're dead.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Neither, I must point out, can you control yourself.

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

I dunno, there wouldn't be walls 'round you anymore, would there?

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

To know this, you must define 'walls'.

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

Something keeping you in place. Guess for it to be an option, though, you can't really be attached to the idea've living.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

You must also be reasonably certain that death does not also keep you in place.

[coughcoughshank.livejournal.com]

We create nothing here. The Sphere and the powers that control it create everything. Apparently some people can't understand that difference.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

For Souji-jūn's own sake, I pray that he is wrong in this assessment.

[coughcoughshank.livejournal.com]

Which part of it?

[ghost_of_00]

One person's decision can affect all.

[There's a pause, and the following is inked after one minute.]

Do you think this is a prison?

00

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Whether we cherish or curse this, all things under Heaven are connected.

[This is similarly struck out quickly.]

I do not; but I am only one person.

[ghost_of_00]

Yes.

I didn't. Now I don't know.

[notpissedoff]

There are some who would rather die fighting than remain captives indefinitely.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Honor and mercy are both great virtues; who can ask a man to choose?

[notpissedoff]

[pentaps]

I hold out hope that we won't have to choose. But if we do, each of us can only choose for ourselves and no one else. I know my choice.

[flenceburgsbest.livejournal.com]

[Just a dab here in red ink, nothing more.]

[kisameisafish.livejournal.com]

Maybe some of us think it's better to die free, Huo-san.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Some of us, to be sure.

[kisameisafish.livejournal.com]

Those who don't will die either way.

[extantlaw.livejournal.com]

There is no freedom without the truth. If you believe otherwise, you're a fool.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

It is unkind to fling such accusations. To die without touching the truth is a tragic thing.

[extantlaw.livejournal.com]

I'm not in the habit of lying to please the egos of those who should know better.

And you're mistaken. The tragedy is to die without trying.