[audio] - backdated to the 6th, a few hours after Kloe's post

[angha_firebird]

[A frustrated, enraged scream is heard first--sounding mostly reptillian. Then deep, rasping breaths as Aara tries to calm down.]

This has to stop. These deaths... these attacks, they have to stop!

[A strangled whimper is drawn from Aara's throat.]

What good is this doing us? We could very well be all we have left.

[The blood. The countless,

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[thii2ii22tupiid]

Get used to it. It seems most species here are just like that. Its only violence, don't be so sensitive, at least people come back here.

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[angha_firebird]

[Aara is actually struck speechless for a moment here. Don't be so sensitive? The anger she is feeling is nearly wiped clean purely from shock.]

And what if, one day, someone does not come back? It will already be too late.

[That person would be gone. Gone. Forever.]

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[thii2ii22tupiid]

Then they won't come back and we'll go on without them. People die all the time, its a part of life.

Its not like we're safe from being culled here, either, but if you're going to spend all day worrying and bitching about it all you're doing is making everyone's lives worse.

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[sociopathicwolf]

[Oh, good. It's her again.]

Are you serious? You think overly dramatic shouting, freaking out on this thing, and ordering the violence to stop is going to do any good?

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[heavyweaponsbot]

Heh.

At least someone in this keep has sense.

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[sociopathicwolf]

[He honestly wasn't expecting anyone to actually agree with him, and it takes him a moment before he replies.]

Yeah. From the way some people are acting lately, I was starting to think common sense was one of the first things to go after getting here.

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[heavyweaponsbot]

It always is. Soon as the fighting starts, order breaks down.

Nothing anyone says ever changes it.

[abstinentzombie]

[...

Welp.]

Aara. Calm down.

[angha_firebird]

[She tried to calm down. For like... an hour. It kind of backfired.]

Kloe...

[abstinentzombie]

I know you're upset. I'm pissed myself, but you have to calm the fuck down. Do you understand?

[angha_firebird]

[She's breathing heavily. Trying to calm down, but it's all too much. She's not used to feeling so many chaotic emotions at once. She's willing to try to calm and listen. And right or wrong word could tip the scale.]

[dominateartimus]

I take it you took my words to heart?

[angha_firebird]

[A deep breath.]

San?

[She's trying to calm down. It's working a little bit--at present.]

I cannot sit here and do nothing, can I? Some tell me to do something. Others tell me it is impossible, and I must wait these horrors out. Tell me. What is it you believe?

[Her lithe body is wired taut as a bow.]

[dominateartimus]

Yes, I'm here talking to you. Unless you would rather prefer me in person opposed to talking over these books.

I would do something about it, even though I've had my fair share of doing nothing and something.

[angha_firebird]

I...

[Aara hesitates, weighing both positive and negative aspects of being in someone else's presence right now.]

If seeing you could calm my tumultuous thought or you have some task for me to perform--a distraction?--I am not opposed to company. Otherwise I fear I may not... be at my best.

[She was barely holding on by a thread, as it were.]

How is one able to rightly decide when to do something, and when to do nothing? And why must this be so difficult to decide? Or perhaps nothing is entirely right or wrong in doing...

[Now she was rambling. To herself. And to him.]