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Princess Rosella of Daventry ([personal profile] primrosella) wrote2009-09-13 05:40 pm

Quest 120

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They didn't come for me.

I killed a witch in her sleep and they didn't come for me. I stole from an ogre, I blinded a set of three hags, I robbed graves...and they didn't come for me. They left me alone. They took the others, they took my friends, but they never came for me.

Am I any less guilty for it?

Maybe I am. Maybe I am different. It'd fit, wouldn't it?

Don't go trying to rescue anyone. Don't come to the prison. Don't look. Don't become one more thing for your friends to worry about. Don't end up like the rest of them.

Is that it? Am I really so different after all?

I think I understand now, Megumi.

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I see, now. How very clever. First make the animals attack us, then set the stuffed ones on us, and now treat us all like animals. That's terribly clever, isn't it? Three bad things, all in a row, just as we'd all been expecting, and all to do with animals.

But it begs questions, doesn't it? Why this? Why now? Why are some people taken and others left alone? And who could possibly deserve the things being done to the people in there? Prison, punishment, seeking repentance for sins--that's all well and good, but if you have to resort to torture to seek it, how are you any better than the ones you intend to punish? What does it solve? Where does it stop?

This isn't justice. It makes me sick-- This is suffering for the sake of suffering. Fuel for the clock again, is it?

And now it's said that the island is sinking. The deities have as good as confirmed it, in their roundabout ways--"rats drown with the ship", "tick-tock, get out quick", "time is not on your side". Is it so hard to guess what the "exciting conclusion" might be? And what does that mean for the people that haven't or won't or can't accept the parole that's been offered, I wonder? Or perhaps I don't have to wonder at all.

But perhaps the question that's most important of all is this: do the ends always justify the means? Is it worth it to become a monster to defeat a monster? To punish people with the same methods that they themselves are being punished for? Or does answering evil with evil only result in twice as much evil at the end of it all? When is it poetic justice, and when is it just plain cruelty?

Perhaps it's the reasons behind it, in the end, that make all the difference. And no matter what anyone might say, I have a difficult time believing that any of this is truly being done for our sakes.

[identity profile] horrible-penny.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
I will. I am.

They have you to look after them, too. That's got to mean just as much as being out.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Good. And...let me know if any of them are still on the island, won't you?

I hope so. Some of it, though, only time will heal.

[identity profile] horrible-penny.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Of course I will.

Well, at least we have plenty of time here. Everything will be okay. Not immediately, but eventually it will be.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Good. If I'm to go there, I'll need to know who to look for.

It always gets better. And awful things like this have happened before, and we've gotten through them, too. Still...well.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
It is.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Too dangerous?

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
I'll call it only very dangerous.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
You know as well as I do that something being very dangerous hasn't stopped me before.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I know, but I think I'm more than just 'very dangerous' and I will try to stop you. I'll go myself before I'll let you.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
You're right, you are more than just very dangerous.

Someone needs to get those people out, we agree on that. But if I'm not letting you go and you're not letting me go, then that injustice is going to have to stand, isn't it?

[identity profile] cateyed-crow.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
No, it cannot stand.

[identity profile] banditfox.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Justice has always been subjective. It's meted out by thinking, feeling beings, and that truth is as much a strength as it is a weakness.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
You're in no condition to go anywhere. You know that.

LOL WRONG ACCOUNT! Sorry!

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
I might not be able to stand, but neither can this.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
It makes it much more difficult to do the right thing when what's right is subjective, doesn't it? Maybe the point is to try to be as objective as possible when meting out justice, then. But either way, any sensible person ought to agree that what's happening out there is wrong.

[identity profile] banditfox.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
I believe any sensible person does, and few not so sensible besides.

No worries, I figured it was you. =D

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
And what will it have solved if you try to go there and get yourself caught?

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Then it has to stop. That's all there is to it.

Are you feeling better, Kurama?

[identity profile] banditfox.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Much, thank you.

If I knew a way to intervene under the current circumstances, I would.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Do you have anything that could break the locks on the doors?

[identity profile] banditfox.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
I do, but on the scale you're suggesting, it would require a great deal of power, more than I can spare at the moment.

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
That's all right. I meant...something I could use myself, anyway.

[identity profile] banditfox.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
To what end?

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Because while I can think of a few ways to get at the cells in the prison, I'm still only human when it comes to a locked door.

[identity profile] banditfox.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
You shouldn't be going in there.

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