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[justthedriver]

If you know you're dying and won't be coming back, what would you die for?

I know I would die just to save one person. How sad it is that we don't have that choice here, yes?

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[perdre]

... I would, too.

[justthedriver]

You tried?

[perdre]

I don't think I ever had to. Before.

[justthedriver]

But this time you had to. How does failure feel like?

[perdre]

I haven't found a word for that yet.

[justthedriver]

Make one up.

[perdre]

Like what?

[justthedriver]

Your feelings, not mine. How do I make word up for you?

[perdre]

[P...oint.]

I have no idea, actually. Not sure why I asked.

[justthedriver]

What answers are you really looking for?

[perdre]

[Blah. He doesn't want to think about that.]

Guess I'm still trying to figure that out, too.

What made you ask that first question?

[justthedriver]

Curiosity. Plenty of people dying when death don't mean a thing, yes?

How much do you want to figure 'that' out?

[perdre]

I think it'd be easier not to.

[justthedriver]

Always easier to not know something. But sometimes it is necessary to know.

[perdre]

Death means something, where I'm from. At least - my family thinks it does.

[justthedriver]

Death should always mean something. It is this place that is strange for it to not.

[perdre]

Doesn't death sort of lose its meaning in every war? With or without resurrection.

[justthedriver]

Wrong.

[perdre]

It's not my perception. They just - I mean - the news just make it a number for the world.

[justthedriver]

You always see the world through the news? No imagination?

[perdre]

How does imagination help?

[justthedriver]

Imagine one of your family. Say, a brother, brought into war. He dies. Multiply yourself and your brother by at least a few thousands.

Still a number?

[perdre]

Not to me. But... to the people who aren't involved.

[justthedriver]

They can use their imagination too.

[perdre]

I doubt they will.

[SO OPTIMISTIC PETER]