Post by Goro Tachibana on Sept 3, 2021 17:25:50 GMT -8
There were many more things that could have been said, questions that Goro could have asked her to satiate his curiosity, but what was the point? If he got to know her more would they become friends? She wasn't the kind of person Goro wanted to be friends with, and he didn't know what her family was like, but if he were her father he wouldn't have been proud of her inaction. If the deaths of people she deemed more important than herself wasn't enough to break her out of her pathetic stupor then what more could he do without letting her drag him down with her?
He refused to look at her once she stepped into his peripheral vision, she wasn't a threat and wasn't worth the effort. The entire interaction had been a waste of time, and Goro had to fight the urge to stop her, hold out his hand, grab her by the neck and shake her until she was loosened from her bubble. Suspended in time, neither going forward nor backward, living not for life, nor for death. Sure, there was value in living for family, but with such little passion for the lives of others Goro could only assume that she valued life--not just her life, but life in general--so little that the only point to her existence was to serve a family that hadn't shown her the value of having something to live for.
But at that point what place did he have to butt into the personal life of a mortal? What would have been required of him? To confront her family, try to shame them into doing better? Continually beat his head against her wall to drill it into her skull? He had all the time in the world, but somehow it just didn't seem worth it. Another sixty years and she wouldn't know it ever even happened, just another second in the grander scale of time.
What a waste of life.
He didn't say it, but his refusal to turn and see her off held the closest sentiment to it he would allow her.
He leapt, just as he'd done a hundred times that day, and vanished.
He refused to look at her once she stepped into his peripheral vision, she wasn't a threat and wasn't worth the effort. The entire interaction had been a waste of time, and Goro had to fight the urge to stop her, hold out his hand, grab her by the neck and shake her until she was loosened from her bubble. Suspended in time, neither going forward nor backward, living not for life, nor for death. Sure, there was value in living for family, but with such little passion for the lives of others Goro could only assume that she valued life--not just her life, but life in general--so little that the only point to her existence was to serve a family that hadn't shown her the value of having something to live for.
But at that point what place did he have to butt into the personal life of a mortal? What would have been required of him? To confront her family, try to shame them into doing better? Continually beat his head against her wall to drill it into her skull? He had all the time in the world, but somehow it just didn't seem worth it. Another sixty years and she wouldn't know it ever even happened, just another second in the grander scale of time.
What a waste of life.
He didn't say it, but his refusal to turn and see her off held the closest sentiment to it he would allow her.
He leapt, just as he'd done a hundred times that day, and vanished.
[EXP: 5][Total EXP: 40]
