getsomesleep: (suspicious business)
Huo [Zhuge Liang, styled Kongming] ([personal profile] getsomesleep) wrote2011-06-19 05:45 pm

二十三 ; èr shí sān

[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.

This is not a comment.

[identity profile] crimson-seeker.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[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.]

[identity profile] longnosedliar.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
No. You'd be dead, but you'd be free.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I do not believe that there is freedom to be found in death; perhaps that is a fault of mine.

[identity profile] longnosedliar.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I think there is. I don't want to die, but no one can control you if you're dead.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-20 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
Neither, I must point out, can you control yourself.

[identity profile] unevoked.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno, there wouldn't be walls 'round you anymore, would there?

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
To know this, you must define 'walls'.

[identity profile] unevoked.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Something keeping you in place. Guess for it to be an option, though, you can't really be attached to the idea've living.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
You must also be reasonably certain that death does not also keep you in place.

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[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
We create nothing here. The Sphere and the powers that control it create everything. Apparently some people can't understand that difference.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
For Souji-jūn's own sake, I pray that he is wrong in this assessment.
ghost_of_00: STARING AT A DOOR (BRB taking a headtrip)

[personal profile] ghost_of_00 2011-06-19 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
Edited 2011-06-19 21:06 (UTC)
ghost_of_00: STARING AT A DOOR (Cicadas won't freaking shut up)

[personal profile] ghost_of_00 2011-06-19 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes.

I didn't. Now I don't know.
notpissedoff: (tell someone who cares)

[personal profile] notpissedoff 2011-06-19 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
There are some who would rather die fighting than remain captives indefinitely.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Honor and mercy are both great virtues; who can ask a man to choose?
notpissedoff: (to be a shinobi is to be patient)

[personal profile] notpissedoff 2011-06-19 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[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.

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[identity profile] flenceburgsbest.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Just a dab here in red ink, nothing more.]

[identity profile] kisameisafish.livejournal.com 2011-06-20 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe some of us think it's better to die free, Huo-san.

[identity profile] kisameisafish.livejournal.com 2011-06-26 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Those who don't will die either way.

[identity profile] extantlaw.livejournal.com 2011-06-20 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
There is no freedom without the truth. If you believe otherwise, you're a fool.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-23 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
It is unkind to fling such accusations. To die without touching the truth is a tragic thing.

[identity profile] extantlaw.livejournal.com 2011-06-26 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

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