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Post by Pathos on Oct 21, 2005 16:03:20 GMT -5
|"Everyone has some darkness in them. And sanity is overrated anyways." He smiled, secretive and slow, and gently lifted the vine from around his shoulders. "You see this? Magical plants are more like animals than regular plants. They live and recognize what's around them, some of them even feel. And most of them refuse to go near anything that will harm them." He held the vine out to Caith, and it almost seemed to shiver. "It likes you."|
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Post by QKat on Oct 21, 2005 16:09:12 GMT -5
He stroaks the plant gently. "I realize that, did a long time ago, but, like animals, plants aren't always right... I would never willingly harm anything, and they pick up on that." He sighs.
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Post by Pathos on Oct 21, 2005 16:13:47 GMT -5
|"Ah. And now we reach the crux of the matter. 'Willingly'. Just the fact that you can *choose* like that...Well. It's certainly more of a choice than I've ever gotten." And, without further ado, he reached up and draped the vine around Caith's shoulders, where it curled, still hanging from the trees, looking like nothing more than a leafy green noose. Or perhaps a tie.|
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Post by QKat on Oct 21, 2005 16:18:40 GMT -5
He blinks, a bit confused by the statement and by jesse's actions. "Choose? I've rarely truely had any choices in my life, and the ones I've had, I've had to fight for." He continues stroaking the vine.
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Post by Pathos on Oct 21, 2005 16:22:15 GMT -5
|"And that is where you're wrong. You choose to be good. You choose to defy your father and everything you've been taught. I..." He turned, looking out at the forest. "...Rightly, I should be in Azkaban. I have had many chances to leave my father. Coming here, to this school, was perhaps the greatest chance of all. And yet...I cannot find the courage, nor the will, to abandon the only thing I have ever known. Better the devil you know than the one you don't, I suppose."|
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Post by QKat on Oct 21, 2005 16:31:59 GMT -5
He blinks, wondering what Jesse could've done to believe he should be in azkaban... "You still have the choice open, you know."
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Post by Pathos on Oct 21, 2005 16:45:43 GMT -5
|He shook his head. "There is no...what would you call it? Motivation? There is no reason, no purpose. Neither side will take me and appreciate what I can do, so I will...straddle the fence, so to speak, and until there is reason, that is where I will remain." He shrugged slightly, smiling at the vine.|
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Post by QKat on Oct 21, 2005 16:51:19 GMT -5
"Motivation, eh? Not easily convinced, are you?"
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Post by Pathos on Oct 21, 2005 16:57:41 GMT -5
|Another shake. "It..really depends, I suppose. If it were the right reason, then I would abandon my father and his ideals without hesitation." He turned around, leaning down and running his fingers through the soft grass. "Love, friends, a family...What does anyone want? But the only person who has shown even a remote interest in me is Tom, and because of that the only chance I had at friendship is now quite possibly ruined...Either one or the other." He chuckled.|
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Post by QKat on Oct 21, 2005 17:03:26 GMT -5
((ruined? did i miss something?)) He blinks. "Don't be so sure."
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Post by Pathos on Oct 21, 2005 17:07:09 GMT -5
((Not really. Just the whole thing between Tom and Jesse, and then there's Sarah, who Tom's trying to kill...Yeah. Makes things a bit awkward.))
|"Nn. I'll try that in the future." He cocked his head at the sky, squinting. It was growing dark. "Tell me...what you want me to do. Not what you think I should do. Not what someone else wants me to do. What you want me to do."|
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Post by QKat on Oct 21, 2005 17:16:02 GMT -5
((^.^()())) He blinks. not a question he's asked very often. "I want you to do anything you can to stop my father..."
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Post by Pathos on Oct 21, 2005 17:49:07 GMT -5
|He bowed his head. "I...don't know if I can. Remember what I said? About love? About Tom being the only one to show interest in me? Certainly it isn't love...But who's to say that it is not possible? He was human, once. He could be again."|
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Post by QKat on Oct 21, 2005 20:31:17 GMT -5
"Did I ever say hurt him?" He sighs. "I've been telling myself the same thing since I realized he lost it... I just don't have much hope left for that..."
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Post by Pathos on Oct 21, 2005 20:48:56 GMT -5
|"I said nothing of hurting him. But trying to stop him would be almost like that..." He sighed, lifting a hand and running it through his hair, tangled and mussed from the wind and the crawling vines of amorous plants. In the distance, the new Herbology professor's Arboretum glinted in the fast-fading sunset. "I just...I don't know. There's nothing for me on either side...you know?...No. I suppose you don't..." He adjusted his glasses, pushing them further up upon his nose.|
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