major_west: (crazy in the rain)
[personal profile] major_west
I've been here for nearly two years now, and while others may have seen results, I have not. It's become clear to me that no matter what course I'd have taken, the end result would have been the same: they live. My men and I die. Perhaps, if I had been a better man-- by whatever metric you wardens measure it by-- I'd have had no second chance at all. My death would have brought peace, a darkness, whatever it is those who do not end up on the Barge receive... and nothing more.

In light of that, I must admit that I've even less reason to repent. I'm quite attached to consciousness, to simply being and feeling alive, even if it's in death here.

Survival is all that matters.

GODDAMN LOGIC

Date: 2010-02-01 02:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
It absolutely has occurred to me.

Date: 2010-02-01 02:43 am (UTC)
gimmethemap: (morgan)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
Then what have you learned?

Date: 2010-02-01 02:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
That the Admiral blackmails people into behaving.

Date: 2010-02-01 02:51 am (UTC)
gimmethemap: (all right fine)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
Blackmailing them would involve holding something dirty over their head. If they graduated that kind of becomes null and void, y'know?

Date: 2010-02-01 04:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
Holding the lives of men who've been given no opportunity themselves to "repent" is even more unsavoury, then.

Date: 2010-02-01 04:41 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (try that again)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
Hello?! This place, here? That's your opportunity. You have an opportunity. Get your head out of your ass.

And stop saying "repent". If it was just about "repenting" then you could just say you're sorry and leave, and you wouldn't even be here anymore.

Date: 2010-02-01 06:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
I'm not talking about myself!

REFORM, then.

Date: 2010-02-01 07:37 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (oh brother)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
What happened with that boy who came here? That's likely the last you're going to see of any of them unless you request otherwise upon your graduation.

You don't know what their fates were beyond death, you don't know there was nothing for them, and you don't know they won't wind up in a place like this if they haven't already. You don't have a right to know. And given your track record? I would be surprised if that information wasn't being kept purposefully from you.

Date: 2010-02-01 08:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
How am I to know if that was really him, and he was really offered a second chance somewhere, or if that was simply an illusion brought about by the flood?

Why would it be kept deliberately?

Date: 2010-02-01 08:47 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (I'm listening)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
Because you use them here.

Date: 2010-02-01 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
I would feel a great deal more motivation to trust in this place and its wardens if I knew they were afforded the same chances as me.

Fine. Deflate her anger balloon. You spoilsport.

Date: 2010-02-01 08:52 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (all right fine)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
I know. And I'll try to get you that.

But in the meantime, hope is good for you, Henry.

VICTORY

Date: 2010-02-01 08:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
Hope is a lie you tell to children for their protection.
Edited Date: 2010-02-01 08:54 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-02-01 08:57 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (Default)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
Hope is what brought you here.

It's like that old story. About the man who tried to bring his wife back to life. He played the harp. I don't know. But when he led her up out of the grave he wasn't allowed to look back to see if she was following. He had to believe she was or he'd just lose her.

Date: 2010-02-01 09:00 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (sigh)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
Yeah that. I never would have been able to spell that off the top of my head. Weird Biblish names.

Date: 2010-02-01 09:05 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (Default)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
But the point is you know what I'm talking about.

Date: 2010-02-01 09:11 pm (UTC)

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