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 Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:22 am
shaon scowled at him. "good thing you're trying to kill me with your faulty medicine. maybe if i fall over and die and i won't have to be hunted." she huffed.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:28 am
"thats a horrible thing to say, I would never purposely harm you." He voice was true, but he was detracted by one of his clients who sent him a report.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:39 am
"you shot me!" she cried. "even iof it was to save me, you harmed me pleny. don't get me wrong, i'm grateful, but still."
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:47 am
"as I recall it I saved you from torture certain death." He told her, still focusing on the computer screen. "you're welcome."
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:48 am
She scowled at him, finding reserve to fight back. "i never asked for your help. i never asked you to get in the way and almost get killed, too. these are my choices...i have to live with them...that's what Altair told me...that's what my parents used to tell me."
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:55 am
"It's true we have to live with or choices, on one is exempt from that fact. Buy you never have to live with them alone." Ben knew he was doing the same thing, but his sacrifices were worth his actions; most of the sacrifices were.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:57 am
"living with them alone is the best way to deal with them." shaon said softly.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:03 am
Ben sighed. "You're just as bad as Pent. both of you are brainwashed into believing in one truth that is absolute. It's so... childish. you don't even trust Drus completely do you?" Ben already knew the answer to his question and was already thinking of another one to ask.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:07 am
"...no..." she sighed. "trusting too much is lethal."
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:09 am
"I guess I would have that mindset too if i worked for Altair or if I had parents like yours." Ben glanced at Shaon for the first time since he read the report. "What ever happen to your parents?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:16 am
she looked away from him for the first time and did not answer, wrapping her arms around her waist and sighing.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:23 am
"Ah," Ben took out more information from her body language than he might have with her words. she was beginning to make more sense now. "Don't want to talk about it?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:31 am
"i can't remember." she mumbled, looking at the floor. she had said that to Drus, too. she had said it so many times, she'd begun to believe it, and through that her mind sucessfully blocked it away, almost giving her somethign liek amnesia. she had chosen to forgotten it and could honestly not remember, because she forced herself to believe she didn't know.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:38 am
"Hm. The mind plays tricks on us sometimes, but sometimes it's for the best." Ben was seeing a pattern in her life. It saddened him and made him want to help her even more. "But life without trust is a horrible life to live."
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:40 am
"living a horrible life is better than not living at all." she said emotionlessly, staring at the ground as her monotonous voice sounded.
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