[ yeah that's what he thought, you were never throwing these cats away. ]
Makes sense. Not like you can go around collectin' lots of trinkets when you're locked up or on the run. Much easier to accumulate things once you've got a more permanent space of your own.
[ puts the plush down somewhere between give away and keep for the moment. ]
'S not bad, havin' things you like around. Or learning what things you like to have around.
[ no he has named them all and is in love with each one. the cats are never leaving. ]
I used to have this-- daydream, I guess. I'd tell my friend at the Circle, Karl. We'd break out together, and I'd go rob a Bann. Not everything. Just enough to buy a small farm. Head somewhere deep enough in the Hinterlands where they wouldn't bother to look, and set up. Grow just enough for us, keep animals around. No dogs. I don't like them. We wouldn't bother anyone. No one would bother us.
Ridiculous, considering I haven't been on a farm since I was 12. I wouldn't know the back end of a cow from the front anymore. Karl didn't care for the idea either. He never hated the Circle like I did.
I don't know, don't think it sounds like that bad of a dream.
[ vastly different from anything he'd imagine for himself, though; aside from that time on the island, he'd only ever been in cities and on runners.
he picks up another cat figurine. puts it over with the others to keep. ]
...Back at the facility, Bas and me had this friend, Vinca. He talked all the time about us breakin' out and gettin' a house together, us and all the other paripus kids. I always told him he needed to get his head out of the clouds, it'd never happen.
[ ... ]
Think I was scared of even havin' a dream. Always was, almost right up 'til the end. But you can't really build a future if you're afraid to imagine it.
[ somehow he'd kind of thought that had come up before. ]
Yeah. Spent some years as test subjects at a facility where they did experiments with igniters — magic devices. We were too young for the army to take us back then, so at the time, it didn't seem like it'd be the worst way to make a living.
[ why is this conversation about him now, he was just relating to your experience. i guess he is still holding cat figurines. ]
Yeah, well. They knew how to sell it to hungry kids in the slums. Roof over your head and regular meals was more than we were gonna get doin' anything else.
[ the outlook for paripus orphans is fucking bleak. but he nods. ]
Been over ten years. Bas got hurt real bad in one of the experiments, and I just barely managed to sneak out with him during a riot. Thankfully this healer in the city saw me out there carryin' him, half dead, and helped without askin' for nothin' in return. Both of us'd be long gone if it weren't for her.
[ he is holding cat figurines and telling a very sad story about children and healers in a city that chews up orphans and eats them for fuel. this is still relatable. ]
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and then moving them to keep. ]
I've never had things to deal with. Only what I could take with me.
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Makes sense. Not like you can go around collectin' lots of trinkets when you're locked up or on the run. Much easier to accumulate things once you've got a more permanent space of your own.
[ puts the plush down somewhere between give away and keep for the moment. ]
'S not bad, havin' things you like around. Or learning what things you like to have around.
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I used to have this-- daydream, I guess. I'd tell my friend at the Circle, Karl. We'd break out together, and I'd go rob a Bann. Not everything. Just enough to buy a small farm. Head somewhere deep enough in the Hinterlands where they wouldn't bother to look, and set up. Grow just enough for us, keep animals around. No dogs. I don't like them. We wouldn't bother anyone. No one would bother us.
Ridiculous, considering I haven't been on a farm since I was 12. I wouldn't know the back end of a cow from the front anymore. Karl didn't care for the idea either. He never hated the Circle like I did.
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I don't know, don't think it sounds like that bad of a dream.
[ vastly different from anything he'd imagine for himself, though; aside from that time on the island, he'd only ever been in cities and on runners.
he picks up another cat figurine. puts it over with the others to keep. ]
...Back at the facility, Bas and me had this friend, Vinca. He talked all the time about us breakin' out and gettin' a house together, us and all the other paripus kids. I always told him he needed to get his head out of the clouds, it'd never happen.
[ ... ]
Think I was scared of even havin' a dream. Always was, almost right up 'til the end. But you can't really build a future if you're afraid to imagine it.
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Facility?
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[ somehow he'd kind of thought that had come up before. ]
Yeah. Spent some years as test subjects at a facility where they did experiments with igniters — magic devices. We were too young for the army to take us back then, so at the time, it didn't seem like it'd be the worst way to make a living.
[ turned out it was. ]
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[ that is so indelicate, but. ]
You've both left since, then?
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Yeah, well. They knew how to sell it to hungry kids in the slums. Roof over your head and regular meals was more than we were gonna get doin' anything else.
[ the outlook for paripus orphans is fucking bleak. but he nods. ]
Been over ten years. Bas got hurt real bad in one of the experiments, and I just barely managed to sneak out with him during a riot. Thankfully this healer in the city saw me out there carryin' him, half dead, and helped without askin' for nothin' in return. Both of us'd be long gone if it weren't for her.
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You've been looking out for him for a long time.
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[ smash cut to thursday ]
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[ and you can't always follow them through every trial and tribulation. smash cut to thursday. ]
It's good you're here together. Despite the circumstances.