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[latkje]

[ This is Nash. He has a pleasant but lazy expression. ]

I don't like to live in the past. It makes me feel old. But when a thought eats at you, sometimes the only thing you can do is take a bite, right?

Anyway, a few weeks ago something the Initiative did put people in their wrong bodies. I don't mean to drudge up bad memories, but— think about it. What are we, really? Hands, feet, fingers, eyes?

We've all got bodies, but souls? [ He shakes his head. ] Not for me to say.

But if the Initiative can keep our fingers and toes and move the rest around, it means there has to be something else, right? And whatever that something else is, the Initiative can mess with it it.

[ The implications are spooky, so he takes a moment to be spooked. And then waves that all away, shrugging. ]

You ever stop to think, and not know how to start up again?

Comments

[latkje]

I don't know. To be a soldier, you have to believe the guy telling you to march knows where he's going.

[battlesleep]

But that trust is usually given because the soldier has made the choice to follow such a person.

[latkje]

Not everyone joins an army because they want to. And not everyone follows because of trust.

[battlesleep]

Do you speak from personal experience?

[latkje]

From observation.

If we can call this speaking.

[battlesleep]

Observation of?

I believe it is considered a form of conversation.

[latkje]

I was a soldier, once.