lingeringfear | NPC Inbox: Fear

NPC Inbox: Fear

[Fear's inbox message is simply a crackling of static, with vague thumps here and there. It goes on for about thirty seconds before cutting short, like the sound was snapped off.]

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If we all die down here, it won't be on your head. It sounds like Sorrow is the one to make the choices and lead the pack but isn't what he's doing a different kind of running? Won't they just find us again?

We're running strategically. Stopping long enough to catch our breath and look at the situation, trying to figure out of there's something we can do that will someday let us stop running.

I have spent a chunk of my life on the run and it didn't give us the time to figure out what to do to stop running, it just gave us the time to figure out how to keep going when they inevitably found us. And they always did.

But they learned that chasing after me did them no good. It was a cycle, one they figured out how to break. We were always a step ahead of them so they... they took a different route and took something precious to make me come to them.

Whatever it is that's after you, they'll find a way to change the cycle. [ However that is, she doesn't know, but her life experiences have taught her that running does nothing but exhaust and drain. ]

Then I suppose we need Sorrow to figure out how to change it first. Luckily, there isn't much precious to us anymore- except for all of you and one another. Our city can be destroyed, our landmarks and art and civilization are already gone. The only thing we're trying to preserve is our own lives.

If anyone is capable of finding a way to change this, he is. I just help with the running.

I don't like that idea. He's already proven to be a failure once.

Why do you have so much faith in him?

No. He saved us once.

After they came for us last time, when the others were all dead and it was just Sorrow and Hope and myself... I should have fought with the others, but I fell back. Sorrow told me the location of the Door and that I needed to bring Hope to it, to open it and keep Hope safe.

Then he stayed behind and died to buy us time to escape. His faith in us gave our species a chance to fight another day.

Edited 2017-06-04 15:48 (UTC)

Is that saving and sacrifice when he knew Hope would bring him back? That you would locate the Door, open it, and create a new host population to feed off of. You weren't supposed to fight with the others because then you'd all be gone and there would be no one to save Hope and bring Sorrow back.

Smart, strategic, selfish.

Does that diminish what it was? We were forced into an impossible situation and he died for us. I don't think it's insignificant because he hoped that we'd be able to revive everyone. For all he knew, we'd screw it up somehow... Hope and I weren't exactly the most distinguished of the gods, before all this.

That's probably a good descriptor from your eyes. I don't think he's selfish, though- the opposite. Just not where it concerns you.

Not to you, it wouldn't. You see him in a very different light than I do. [ Then again, can she blame Fear too much? Sorrow saved him, saved Hope, and virtually gave them a second chance, but she has trouble seeing past the fact that Sorrow is a giant dick and knows how to close the Door and doesn't.

She's likely painted a picture of him that she now uses as target practice with a bow. Arrow to the face! A thousand arrows to his face! ]

You were the last ones: did he really have any other choice? I don't think so. If I were you, I'd keep that in mind.

I do. Knowing exactly how strategically useful you are gives you equal footing when trying to reason with him. Keep that in mind next time you see him.

You're trying to talk me away from him. [He observes, a little cheekily.] Does that mean you're starting to like me?

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NPC Inbox: Fear

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