#sohelish:asks

[duefaith-a]

          // @sohelish​ sent,  ❝ how long have you been standing there? ❞

          ❛ About two seconds — don’t worry, I didn’t overhear anything. You don’t really think I’m capable capable of being stealthy enough for you to not know when I’m around, do you? Though I’m a bit offended you think I’d eavesdrop. ❜

[mcgnificat-a]

          // @sohelish​​ sent,  ❝  the  true  joy  is  in  the  mystery . ❞

          ❛ is it, though?  don’t get me wrong:  I agree there’s no fun to be had in knowing everything. ❜    there’s no wonder in that,  nothing new to capture the attention,  no potential for the future. stagnancy.    ❛ but isn’t the fun in the figuring it out?  I’ve never found a puzzle that was fun unless you had a chance of solving it. ❜    she’d worked on an photomosaic jigsaw puzzle once,  in fit of boredom.  she’d gotten nowhere,  no matter the hours poured into it.  joy was the furthest thing that particular mystery had brought her.

[duefaith-a]

         // @sohelish​​ sent,  ❝ death is a part of life. i accepted that a long time ago. ❞

          ❛ Y’know, that’s not a statement I’d usually disagree with. ❜    Usually being the operative word, for he can’t quite find it in him to accept it now. There’s a fundamental difference, after all, between coming to an acceptance that one’s own life ( and ultimately the lives of family and friends ) is transitory and using it as an excuse to look the other way, to give up and write off a few losses as an acceptable part of life. It would be easy enough to forsake the two individuals trapped by the accident, to declare them already lost ( and well might they be ). Cam’s never one for the easy way out.

          And maybe, just maybe, if he stops to think about it, if he truly examines just how much he has accepted death as an inevitable part of life, as something to be embraced and not feared, he’ll find that he’s less in agreement with the perspective than he believes. Life, in all forms, is worth fighting for, and if that means fighting against the inevitability of death itself, Cam’ll embrace the impossible challenge gladly.    ❛ But that’s not how this works, not this time. We’re getting them out of there, and you’re helping. ❜

[anarcalina]

          // @sohelish​ sent,  ❝ if people are upset because you’ve forgotten something , console them by letting them know you didn’t forget — you just weren’t remembering. ❞

          It’s a slow, wry grin that creeps its way across her features,    ❛ Now, that’s just playing with semantics. Even better: just tell them you never knew. ❜    Because forgetting implies having once remembered, which by extension implies any sort of regard for the importance of the information, and, truly, who can be bothered?

         ❛ I mean, surely then it’s their own damn fault for not making sure you knew. ❜    Ultimately, is it any less toying with semantics and the rhetoric of wordplay? Talia’s not sure, yet she is certain that she does not care.    ❛ For that matter, it’s their own damn fault for caring that you forgot, right? ❜