Quest 120

[primrosella]

[Private//Hackable by Friends]

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.

[/Private]

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.

Comments

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

If the island is sinking, they ought to be gotten out.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I promised I wouldn't go trying to rescue anyone, remember? And you're not going back there, either.

1/2

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Now that suddenly seems to be real injustice.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I'm told it's very dangerous out there, too.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

It is.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Too dangerous?

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I'll call it only very dangerous.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

You know as well as I do that something being very dangerous hasn't stopped me before.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

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.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

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?

[cateyed-crow.livejournal.com]

No, it cannot stand.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

You're in no condition to go anywhere. You know that.

LOL WRONG ACCOUNT! Sorry!

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I might not be able to stand, but neither can this.

No worries, I figured it was you. =D

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

And what will it have solved if you try to go there and get yourself caught?

I'm still kicking myself |D Ah well.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Nothing. Everything will be as it was when I was first caught--or perhaps worse, if the island is sinking.

I will pretend I saw nothing! Ignorance is bliss.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Then you already know the only answer left. You just don't want to give it. I understand that.

...And I'm not going to ask you to give it, either.

Perfect~<3 1/2

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Very well, then.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Then I wasn't wrong, after all. And to think I'd hoped--

I know. I'm different. I see that now.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

What do you mean?

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I don't belong anywhere near there. So I shouldn't give my friends any reason to worry about me.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

No, you don't belong anywhere near there. And I know I far prefer it when you don't give me any reason to worry about you.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Then will you at least let me come sit with you? Since I'm not allowed to do anything else.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Yes, all right. Though I'm not sure I'm much for company-- I can't seem to do much beyond lie here in bed.