It is not out of kindness that he does such a thing. It would be easy to pull the man -- creature -- out of his reverie, but Silco simply puffed at his cigar, and let the weight of it, the wholeness of his loss descend upon him. He is not a kind man, he is a man who aches in a similar way to this creature. He, too, felt this loss, but it was no shock to him. He's lived through Horos and the certainty of his loss has crystalized like armor.
He's now had time, to grow to hate this. This reality.
He wondered if this man would come to do the same?
He waited, and did not speak, before he finally hit the end of his cigar, and he puffed the last smoke ring, before he tossed it off the railing and to the street below. He didn't stub it out, and it landed with a soft thip, and a scattering of ashes on the cobblestone below. ]
When you make your decision, I'm sure Yima will already have it waiting.
[ He said, simply. He would have done anything to hold his daughter in his hands, and if this man was at all concerned with who he was looking for -- a little girl -- then Silco would doubt his devotion.
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It is not out of kindness that he does such a thing. It would be easy to pull the man -- creature -- out of his reverie, but Silco simply puffed at his cigar, and let the weight of it, the wholeness of his loss descend upon him. He is not a kind man, he is a man who aches in a similar way to this creature. He, too, felt this loss, but it was no shock to him. He's lived through Horos and the certainty of his loss has crystalized like armor.
He's now had time, to grow to hate this. This reality.
He wondered if this man would come to do the same?
He waited, and did not speak, before he finally hit the end of his cigar, and he puffed the last smoke ring, before he tossed it off the railing and to the street below. He didn't stub it out, and it landed with a soft thip, and a scattering of ashes on the cobblestone below. ]
When you make your decision, I'm sure Yima will already have it waiting.
[ He said, simply. He would have done anything to hold his daughter in his hands, and if this man was at all concerned with who he was looking for -- a little girl -- then Silco would doubt his devotion.
Then again, it is Silco. ]