[ This one should not surprise D, when Silco says: ]
Probably torture. There are a few...religions lurking where I am from, but they were often so...hopeful. Looking for salvation beyond while they starved in the present.
[ Perhaps, if Silco had not gone through a specific sequence of events, there would have been hope for him. Perhaps if he hadn't stumbled, scrabbled, and forced the world to allow him to survive, perhaps there would have been hope. But, well, that wasn't the world, or the people Silco came from. Instead, he's just a blight of sharp, cold pessimism -- ready to douse with cold water at any moment. ]
Or nothing, I supposed. [ He appraised D for a moment. ] Does this mean you shouldn't have died?
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Probably torture. There are a few...religions lurking where I am from, but they were often so...hopeful. Looking for salvation beyond while they starved in the present.
[ Perhaps, if Silco had not gone through a specific sequence of events, there would have been hope for him. Perhaps if he hadn't stumbled, scrabbled, and forced the world to allow him to survive, perhaps there would have been hope. But, well, that wasn't the world, or the people Silco came from. Instead, he's just a blight of sharp, cold pessimism -- ready to douse with cold water at any moment. ]
Or nothing, I supposed. [ He appraised D for a moment. ] Does this mean you shouldn't have died?