I haven't thought about it. ...I don't remember dying the first time, so points for brain disease I guess, but I know plenty of people who remember theirs.
[Most of them died of sickness in their beds, and even that's traumatic enough. He only knows one author who died violently at someone else's hands, and while he and Takiji aren't close...
The effects of those memories have lasted much longer than the wounds themselves.]
You're too young to experience death. [If Ray interrupts he'll just talk over him.] Even if it's temporary, even if you're already surrounded by it at home, even if all the adults you know are douchewads, whatever excuses you're about to give me I don't care. You shouldn't have to know what it feels like to die.
[he fires again. another bulls-eye, like all of his shots before it. his voice is calm.]
Neither does this competition. Obviously, not everyone feels the same way you do. So it doesn't matter if someone's "too young to experience death"—that won't protect them, here or otherwise.
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I'm fine.
[was chuuya expecting any other response...]
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[He was not.]
Did you talk to her before?
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[Chuuya doesn't like it, but that's the logic someone would use.]
I asked and Patience said that if she wanted to forget what dying feels like, the gods could do that for her. So that's something. I guess.
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[Most of them died of sickness in their beds, and even that's traumatic enough. He only knows one author who died violently at someone else's hands, and while he and Takiji aren't close...
The effects of those memories have lasted much longer than the wounds themselves.]
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[He's already screwed up. One more traumatic memory won't do much.]
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I didn't think you were. In any case, it's not a big deal to me.
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I don't think there's an age requirement for death.
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[That came out a little more upset than Chuuya meant it to. Um. He swallows and tries again.]
Just because things happen doesn't mean they should.
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[he fires again. another bulls-eye, like all of his shots before it. his voice is calm.]
Neither does this competition. Obviously, not everyone feels the same way you do. So it doesn't matter if someone's "too young to experience death"—that won't protect them, here or otherwise.
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[Chuuya's voice is shaking.]
Of course children die. Here. At home. Everywhere. I know that. 'Should' won't protect them. Adults are supposed to protect them.
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he raises an eyebrow.]
You sure you're not defecting to Love?
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[ray has the sensitivity of a brick.]
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...yes. He did.
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[It's the drinking that most directly comes from his loss.]
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Too bad for the minority that missed that memo.
[he goes to retrieves his arrows.]
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Chuuya turns around and leaves to go get very, very drunk.]
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like what just happened]
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