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Post by iamtuo on May 23, 2007 6:15:26 GMT -5
Icaru enters into a town with Kuro in tow as he looks about himself, feeling the area out for pain and suffering. "Tell me Kuro..what can you tell me about this town.."
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Post by Alethia on May 23, 2007 6:22:53 GMT -5
"This is Brazzaville, in the Republic of Congo," Kuro explained, watching a mosquito land on her arm and steal some of her blood. "They're experiencing a war with their neighboring country, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Good place to go to see refugees and guerrilla war victims."
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Post by iamtuo on May 23, 2007 6:30:54 GMT -5
Icaru nods, confirming much of it through the pain he feels in the town. "Thank you. But that is not what I meant. What can you see of these people. Do you see terrified refugees or do you see resolved warriors who do not fear hardship?" Icaru can already feel much of what he has asked for Kuro to answer, but he wishes to test her, to see if she can precieve such things without him telling her beforehand.
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Post by Alethia on May 23, 2007 6:34:48 GMT -5
Kuro shifts as she looks around, then slowly answers, "I believe they are.. broken spirited." She elaborated, pointing out the postures of the people, their tone of voice, the short tempers.
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Post by iamtuo on May 23, 2007 6:58:59 GMT -5
Icaru cant help but smirk slightly. "Good, you may one day become a Pain Giver..if we can redeem ourselves that is." Icaru steps up to a box of sorts to stand on before speaking in a tone that seems to carry further then it should. "You poor, forsaken souls. Trying to endure such pain and suffering..as you live now, you are all doomed to die long before your bodies stop moving, waiting for either a brutal end or a cruel gesture to prolong your agony.."
(I figure Pain Giver is a name for Bael's enforcers or something)
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Post by Alethia on May 23, 2007 7:00:19 GMT -5
Kuro steps a little closer to Icaru, nervously fingering her gun as she sees the look of resentment wash over the sea of faces like a wave. She doesn't dare question Icaru's judgment however.
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Post by iamtuo on May 23, 2007 7:28:36 GMT -5
Icaru ignores both Kuro's worry and the resentment of the gathered crowds. "There is another way however, you can embrace your pain, accept suffering as part of your life. Do not merely endure it, for it will eventually consume you if that is all you do." Icaru points to one of the men listening. "You are suffering from a wound in your side that burns when you exert yourself..will you let that pain forever sentance you to a life of reliance upon others while you slowly waste away as the pain forces you to let your body waste away into nothing?" By now, a feverish look enters into Icaru's eyes where only cold indifference usually resides.
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Post by Alethia on May 23, 2007 7:30:55 GMT -5
Kuro forgets the crowds a moment, and instead looks up at Icaru in worshipful awe.
The man growled back at Icaru, "How can I 'accept' the pain? Do you think I like having to be a burden on my family?" He spat on the ground in disgusted rage. "Everything hurts. I cannot simply just get used to it!"
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Post by iamtuo on May 23, 2007 7:48:35 GMT -5
Icaru raised his right hand with the back of his hand facing the crowd, with a simple, unadorned ring on a finger. "I know exactly how much it hurts you. Just as I know how much pain the three critically injured patients in your clinic are in right now. One of them hardly even has a face, his lungs are slowly filling with his own blood..and yet I can feel that he has accepted that pain for what little time he has left to live." Icaru then closes his hand in a tight fist, twisting his own finger slightly to cause the needles in the ring to dig and twist into his flesh, causing some blood to trickle out. "I myself wear this ring so that I may always feel some measure of the pain that those like yourself suffer though. If you cannot embrace your pain, to make it part of your very soul, then you insult me and the God of Pain."
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Post by Alethia on May 23, 2007 7:50:02 GMT -5
"Will accepting the pain make it go away?" a few voices cry out, demanding to know. Kuro snorts softly at their ignorance.
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Post by iamtuo on May 23, 2007 8:01:55 GMT -5
Icaru shakes his head at the demands. "No it will not. What good would that do? If the pain was gone, then the next time you are hurt, you will still be a victim to pain. However, if you can accept the pain, it will still be there, but instead of a hinderence it shall become your strength. The strength to continue working, or the strength to fight when other men would think you are defeated. If you can truely accept pain, it will be part of your soul and provide you comfort and feeling at all times."
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