[Voice]

[deservinghell]

[For Henry, the past month has been rougher than any other in recent memory. Confessing to the only person in this wretched place he is comfortable calling a friend that she'd been keeping intimate company with a vampire was more emotionally trying than he expected. But that paled in comparison to a week spent living--finding himself with a pulse for the first time in four and a quarter centuries--and then having it taken away again.]

Surely I'm not the only one who'd rather our personal timelines never sorted themselves out.

Comments

[assworthsaving]

[The sound of bitterness is all too familiar to him. Can't really blame the guy, though.]

I wouldn't say that. Some people have been sent back without returning. It just all seems to be random or involuntary. Not sure if that means we should continue doing nothing about these missions or be bigger pains in the ass.

[deservinghell]

Pity uselessness doesn't seem to guarantee a ticket home either. I don't think it's a stretch to say no one's heart is in this war.

[assworthsaving]

[Sure, no one's heart is in this and he doesn't doubt that most of these people want to go back home, and yet...]

And yet they all continue to help the Initiative anyway with poisoning lands, destroying civilizations- rewriting history.

[deservinghell]

Cooperation and complacency are easier for many, I suspect. But you're right. No matter whose history it is, the idea of altering it is still troubling.

[assworthsaving]

Right. Glad I'm not the only one who thinks that way. And maybe I'm not entirely convinced that all this screwing around doesn't have far-reaching consequences.

[deservinghell]

And how many of us can refuse to fight, to back off the front lines before the Initiative has to put its foot down? I don't doubt their power to make our lives hell if they feel it's necessary.

[assworthsaving]

I don't know. Seems like they're getting by just fine with the volunteers they already have. I don't think they'd want to risk endangering their cause by pissing off everyone with threats. You've- ah, you've heard of that saying- 'You catch more flies with honey'? That definitely applies here. There's a lot of us, and they can't send anyone back; only bring more people in. So if word about threats got out to new transports then they'd have a rebellion on their hands on top of everything else.

[deservinghell]

It's true. I suppose the sheer volume of transports shuttled in here every month guarantees at least a handful is willing to play the game.