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 Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 9:56 pm
"Personal choice," Barth said quietly. "You can err...twist things a bit. Make it about what was said rather than what the person meant. I don't like doing it that way."
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 10:44 pm
"Oh. Well, I suppose that makes you a better demon then." he said, though he wondered about others. He hadn't happened on any bad demons as of yet and didn't know how bad most of them were. There had to be some bad eggs in the batch, but so far he tended to like demons. "So.......what do you wish for in a contract? I mean, if you could have any option out there and everything was there for the taking. What would be the one deal you'd dream for?" It was kind of like asking what you'd wish for if you could wish anything.
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 11:15 pm
"Anything? From anyone?"
There was a lot to consider
"I'm not sure. I don't err, really want...ultimate money, or power, or anything of that sort. I err...I suppose what I really want is my own place." A castle. "And a reliable staff to run it." ...with a scientific partner. "Maybe a little sort of inventing operation." And a track into the global market. "I don't know if there's an ultimate Deal for all that. Just...a lot of the right smaller ones."
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:04 am
"It sounds like a very nice dream. I can see it happening. You and Chrsitof and everyone else seem to really know what you want. I'm sure you'll all make it. At least, I believe you can." He glanced at his anklet once more before fiddling with his ribbon.
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:05 am
"What about you? Any big wishes?" Barth asked.
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:11 am
"I used to know what I wanted, but ...it's really vague. Someone to be with. Lots of company. A place to call mine - My own piece of territory." Maybe with a scarling or six. "I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. The teachers already told us to decide, but I can't figure out what's best for me." It also mattered if the clan approved of said job or not. It had to benefit them after all.
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:30 pm
"You don't have to know," Barth said. "Knowing what you want and what happens aren't the same thing. Maybe it's better. To be open to whatever comes your way."
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 7:25 pm
"If you let the tides take you, you'll wind up smashed against the rocks." It was a quote, and his ears dropped at such a grim reminder. He had let himself go with the flow long enough and made little decisions in his life, and he had wound up in a lot of mess. Sure, he was happy in school, but he didn't know what he would be and now was with some grumpy stallion.
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:55 pm
"Sometimes," Barth admitted, picking a small sprig of bramble from Calder's hair, and examining it curiously. "And sometimes you find warmer tides, and pleasant shores."
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 8:39 pm
Calder smiled at that imagery and leaned back in a playful way to nudge the boil. "Didn't expect you to be such an optimist."
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:11 pm
"I'm just not very fond of morality stories," Barth said, smiling slightly back, and shifting to comb the very tips of Calder's hair. "The good and hard-working achieve their goals, and the wicked and lazy come to a bad end. Not true in the slightest."
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 4:34 pm
"Hmm. I'm not big on philosophy. Just that, if there is a will, there is a way. I like that better." He was certainly not one to point out that Barth would not last a day in the kelpie community where working for the group and contributing to earn your keep were expectations held by everyone. Then again, Barth wasn't a kelpie, and he probably didn't grow up with such demands on him. He did wonder what demons felt were the rules all demons followed to make respected by their peers.
"How do you see it?" He asked, curious.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 5:00 pm
"I see it that there are lots of people," Barth said, "who struggle, and toil, and have nothing, and will never have anything, and feel unhappy and cheated about it. Or, very rarely, who work hard, and get everything, but not quite enough, and still keep working and are tired and stressed and not much happier for it either. And there will always be those who give others busy work, and waste everyone's time, middling about and still getting nothing done in the mean time. Ideas change things. Machinery can do the work for us. And on the matters of skill, or goodness, or evil, it is in my opinion that it is always better to be smart than moral, and better to be lucky than either."
He turned the comb, the careful job dependent on Calder's word.
"People don't like to know that hard work means nothing most of the time, and worse than nothing at one turn of bad luck. Tricky thing, the future. I have my hopes. Things I'd like to do. But you shouldn't go thinking that no plan is any better than mine."
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 12:22 pm
"Hmmm. But what if you're not lucky? Then what? You just...wait around? I'd rather work hard for something I want and believe in, to a dream and desire, than to just think I'd fail in the end. Even if I did, at least I could say I tried my best and worked hard for what I wanted. That way, if I did get it, then I could take pride in earning it and achieving it, than just feeling that it came along."
He fiddled with a hair tie and reached over to grab the box to riffle through and look at the various hair ornaments he could put on. He rarely used them despite how many he had.
"Waiting around for something that might not come or happen, just seems boring to me. That's not living. Doing things, even if you don't do good, that's living. I want to do as much as I can until......." Until Murchadh decided he didn't need to go to school anymore. "...until school is over."
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 2:55 pm
"If you're not lucky, or bright, you must be very, very charming."
Barth's arms were getting tired, and he adjusted his position, resting them against his knee as he brushed.
"I'm the waiting sort, I admit. You're not planning on living past graduation?"
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