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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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[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]

[justthedriver]

Of course not.

But if you can imagine, you can teach them to, yes?

[perdre]

I suppose so.

[justthedriver]

Or are you the kind who'd rather whine and do nothing?

[perdre]

[Growing a little tense -] That's now who I am.

[justthedriver]

Then who are you?

[perdre]

I'm - someone who wants to be able to help.

[justthedriver]

Let's make this easier.

What can you do?

[perdre]

[Become a wolf. Protect and fight that way.

He's quiet.]

[justthedriver]

Hm?