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caughtinanetwork2012-03-02 07:59 pm
withoutasign) wrote in caughtinanetwork2012-03-02 07:59 pm
Sermon Two
[Signless has chosen his location carefully; when he turns on the video function, there's a wall of water behind him, and a school of brightly colored tropical fish swimming past. He's very clearly in the bubble again.]
My friends, today I want to talk to you about fear.
[His voice is low and soothing, his story-telling voice.]
I have known great fear in my time. In my world, the color of my blood was a source of fear, something that drove me into hiding for a long time. Then, when I dreamed of the world that could be, rather than the world that was, I was afraid again... afraid that I would never see what I knew we were capable of come to pass. I was afraid to speak out, afraid to make a ripple in the still, stagnant waters of our society, and tried instead to live my meager little life underneath the notice of the highbloods.
But then I saw what my silence was doing, what those in similar positions were suffering, and I knew I could not stay silent. I could not sit idly by while our world rotted away from its very core, while its corruption bled away the talents and very lives of so many trolls who had done nothing beyond being hatched the wrong color. I could not wait for another to come along and demand change, or I would wait the rest of my life. I needed to cast aside my fear, to find a reserve of strength within me, and rise to what my world needed me to be.
[His voice falls, becoming hushed and soft, almost painfully honest, and he looks down, his cloak hiding his eyes.]
I was terrified. Casting off fear is one of the most difficult things I have ever done. Fear is something I knew, its cold comfort as familiar to me as my guardian's face. It would have been... easy to live my entire life in fear, I thought.
[He looks up then, and his eyes are burning, his voice strong once more.]
I thought that fear was a cloak to hide me, but it was a chain I wore around my neck. When the fear was gone, when I made the decision to cast it aside, I have never felt so free in my entire life. It was how I imagine it must feel to wake up one morning with wings, and look out the window into an endless sky. When the fear was gone, I could breathe a deep breath for the first time in my life, and look to the future not as an ominous, foreboding thing, but as a path bathed in light and redemption.
I am not afraid any longer, Vatheon. This is my home now, and it is worth fighting for. I will not be driven out of my home again. I will not let fear control me.
My friends, today I want to talk to you about fear.
[His voice is low and soothing, his story-telling voice.]
I have known great fear in my time. In my world, the color of my blood was a source of fear, something that drove me into hiding for a long time. Then, when I dreamed of the world that could be, rather than the world that was, I was afraid again... afraid that I would never see what I knew we were capable of come to pass. I was afraid to speak out, afraid to make a ripple in the still, stagnant waters of our society, and tried instead to live my meager little life underneath the notice of the highbloods.
But then I saw what my silence was doing, what those in similar positions were suffering, and I knew I could not stay silent. I could not sit idly by while our world rotted away from its very core, while its corruption bled away the talents and very lives of so many trolls who had done nothing beyond being hatched the wrong color. I could not wait for another to come along and demand change, or I would wait the rest of my life. I needed to cast aside my fear, to find a reserve of strength within me, and rise to what my world needed me to be.
[His voice falls, becoming hushed and soft, almost painfully honest, and he looks down, his cloak hiding his eyes.]
I was terrified. Casting off fear is one of the most difficult things I have ever done. Fear is something I knew, its cold comfort as familiar to me as my guardian's face. It would have been... easy to live my entire life in fear, I thought.
[He looks up then, and his eyes are burning, his voice strong once more.]
I thought that fear was a cloak to hide me, but it was a chain I wore around my neck. When the fear was gone, when I made the decision to cast it aside, I have never felt so free in my entire life. It was how I imagine it must feel to wake up one morning with wings, and look out the window into an endless sky. When the fear was gone, I could breathe a deep breath for the first time in my life, and look to the future not as an ominous, foreboding thing, but as a path bathed in light and redemption.
I am not afraid any longer, Vatheon. This is my home now, and it is worth fighting for. I will not be driven out of my home again. I will not let fear control me.
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yOU KNOW WHAT CUR1OS1TY 1S A S1GN OF?
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pEOPLE, a TROLL, a TROLL W1TH H1S OWN M1ND, w1SH1NG TO EXPAND UPON 1T'S OWN KNOWLEDGE.
cUR1OS1TY D1VERGES FROM THE MACH1NE, pS11ON11C.
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You mu2t have been 2peakiing two the chiildren a2 of late.
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wHY DO YOU SAY THAT?
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2omehow II doubt a 2iimple adju2tment of my 2peech wiill diivert you.
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:33 < but youre furry clefur so i know you know what i meant!
:33 < and really in the end it doesnt matter as long as youre sure youre happy but...
:33 < youre a real purro...no, no, a PROPER PERSON, mister psii
:33 < okay?
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2urely II am a2 content a2 po22iible.
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:33 < i really like you mister psii and i think you deserve to be furry furry happy oh yes :33
:33 < *ac rubs her head against mister psiis arm and purrs a purrposal that they have tea together again soon*
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II would be plea2ed two have tea wiith you once more.
Thii2 ii2 perhap2 excepting 16:00-17:00 on weekday2, and at 21:00-22:00 on Thur2day.
Tho2e tiime2 would not be iideal.
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:33 < and ill bring pounce with me again and purrhaps tavros too
:33 < if thats okay
:OO < those are furry specific times!
:33 < why not then?
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They are 2iimply le22 than iideal for the con2umptiion of tea.
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:33 < oh but
:33 < its only pawlite to invite you ofur to have tea with us at our hive too
:33 < if youd like that
[The subject of appropriate times may have been dropped but by no means forgotten, Psiioniic!]
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1 TH1NK 1 JUST CAME TO THAT CONCLUS1ON WHEN YOU SHOWED HONEST CUR1OS1TY.
bUT 1F A LOT OF US ARE START1NG TO BR1NG TH1S UP,
tHEN MAYBE 1T REALLY 1S A S1GN.
bEEP FOR ME,
1 WANT TO SEE 1F 1T'S THE SAME AS BEFORE.
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II dii2liike iit when you do that, 2ummoner.
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sPARKY?
};)
[Because he knows you like that.]
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[ Maybe kind of. Gosh, don't judge. ]
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dON'T WORRY ABOUT 1T.
nEVERM1ND.
[No sex talk, right. /zips mouth.]
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You are a 2trange man.
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1F YOU M1SSED SOMETH1NG, 1 AM PRETTY SURE YOU WOULD BE OKAY.
w1TH THAT PART1CULAR TH1NG YOU M1SSED 1 MEAN.
oTHERW1SE?
hEH, nO, yOU APPARENTLY HAVE BEEN GETT1NG 1N ON A LOT MORE THAN YOU EVER WANTED.