Nephry Osborne (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
silversnowfall) wrote2013-01-19 02:02 am
silversnowfall) wrote2013-01-19 02:02 am
74. [voice/written]
[Some say too much deep thought begets deeper problems.]
I've been thinking.
[Nephry has a piece of paper in front of her, as well as a book open to a marked page.]
Mm, I should say that reading has been making me think. Indulge me for a moment, if you will: there is a relatively small portion of our population living in this village that arrived more than three Luceti years ago. It's an easy number for me to choose, because I fall into that category as well. I don't know many of those sharing a 'cycle year' with me as personally as I might, but-
[Here she stops, taps the page of the other book, and tries a new direction. Included in her explanation is a description of the formula she mentions.]
Something I read about and didn't understand prompted a bit more research on my part. I'm interested in testing whether this...theory, I suppose, of mine happens to prove true. In another world, there is a kind of formula for determining how ready one is to accept the inevitable. I believe that, with some exceptions of course, one 'step' in this formula enacts itself in the space of one Luceti cycle year. [Then she illustrates what the heck she means by that, expanding upon a chart she found in her research.]
[A half-laugh. Actually it's quite a sad sound.] Doesn't that sound strange? And yet I remember being in complete disbelief that such things were possible, and then worrying about my friends and hating the Malnosso for what they do to us, and then wanting nothing more than to use our limited knowledge as some kind of wager for the chance to change-
And now...to a degree, I still feel all of these other things, and yet- [No. Perhaps it's best not to go into that so publicly. It's unbecoming of a governor for certain.] Well, now I'm asking the rest of you. No matter how long you have been here. Does this hold true for you?
I've been thinking.
[Nephry has a piece of paper in front of her, as well as a book open to a marked page.]
Mm, I should say that reading has been making me think. Indulge me for a moment, if you will: there is a relatively small portion of our population living in this village that arrived more than three Luceti years ago. It's an easy number for me to choose, because I fall into that category as well. I don't know many of those sharing a 'cycle year' with me as personally as I might, but-
[Here she stops, taps the page of the other book, and tries a new direction. Included in her explanation is a description of the formula she mentions.]
Something I read about and didn't understand prompted a bit more research on my part. I'm interested in testing whether this...theory, I suppose, of mine happens to prove true. In another world, there is a kind of formula for determining how ready one is to accept the inevitable. I believe that, with some exceptions of course, one 'step' in this formula enacts itself in the space of one Luceti cycle year. [Then she illustrates what the heck she means by that, expanding upon a chart she found in her research.]
[A half-laugh. Actually it's quite a sad sound.] Doesn't that sound strange? And yet I remember being in complete disbelief that such things were possible, and then worrying about my friends and hating the Malnosso for what they do to us, and then wanting nothing more than to use our limited knowledge as some kind of wager for the chance to change-
And now...to a degree, I still feel all of these other things, and yet- [No. Perhaps it's best not to go into that so publicly. It's unbecoming of a governor for certain.] Well, now I'm asking the rest of you. No matter how long you have been here. Does this hold true for you?
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How long have you been here?
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A year and a half. How about you?
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[Marco fits her theory quite well, she thinks.]
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First, may I ask you about how things were back in your world?
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First is death of family or friends. If someone they loved is here, but dead in their time, it's hard not to view this as bonus time, eh?
Secondly is war. If their home area was in a turbulent part of history, such as mine, then being here with interruptions in between the drafts makes it a lot easier to call this place gentler than back home.
Third is just interpersonal relationships. I have friends, hell I've adopted from people from other worlds, and I know others who've done the same. We wouldn't have met them back in our worlds and times so that is yet another opportunity only provided here, eh?
And fourth is resources. Much like the war thing, if someone comes from a world starved for resources, simply not starving day to day makes this place a step closer to paradise.
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Do you think these things outweigh the difficult ones?
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They can. In my case, yes, and for a few others. Probably not for everyone.
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