33rd moon [video/action]

[paladinlost]

[Today, Cecil is posting from the street right in front of the Olivine Gym. Flare is sitting beside him, looking tired but happy.]

Rosa, Rydia, are you both still well? Flare needs to rest first, but we'll soon be able to come find you. We'll not be long, I promise.

[Now that the most important thing he had to say is out of the way, he has a question for everyone else.]

Could anyone tell me more about the Mahogany and Blackthorn Gyms, along with the roads that lead to them? With the end of the road so close, it'd be a shame to stop now.

[Flare barks quickly in agreement, and Cecil ends the message.]

Comments

[video]

[reveiller]

When it's your problem, of course it'd seem great.

[video]

[paladinlost]

I believe that particular problem would be considered objectively great.

[video]

[reveiller]

Seem, being the keyword. Is any problem truly great?

[video]

[paladinlost]

When thousands if not millions of lives are threatened? Yes.

[video]

[reveiller]

Not to the tyrant. Not to the child.

Not to the flower that blooms from the ashes of war.

[video]

[paladinlost]

There'd be no children or flowers left, and the tyrant is probably responsible in the first place.

[video]

[reveiller]

So in the end, there's still the tyrant to account for. Even the greatest problem might not be a problem in the eyes of others.

[video]

[paladinlost]

It'll become his problem when someone decides not to let it happen.

[video]

[reveiller]

Even then, there's no guarantee that he'd regret it.

[video]

[paladinlost]

...Such a person is far beyond anyone's help, then.

[video]

[reveiller]

And it's everyone else's problem-- but his, of course.

[video]

[paladinlost]

Such problems can be eliminated with a few good swords and spells.

[video]

[reveiller]

Is it really so simple?

Re: [video]

[paladinlost]

...Perilous travels and near brushes with death are also often involved.

[video]

[reveiller]

With the end result of killing the tyrant at the risk of your own lives?

[video]

[paladinlost]

If it must be done, and it often must.

[video]

[reveiller]

Can a problem truly be solved by the death of a man?

[video]

[paladinlost]

Not completely, but it can help if everything else fails.

[video]

[reveiller]

You've seen a lot of death.

[video]

[paladinlost]

As much as anyone from my world has, which is rather too much.

[video]

[reveiller]

Being alive... that's a rather lucky thing.

[video]

[paladinlost]

That it is. Too many die simply because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[video]

[reveiller]

Is there ever a right place and a right time?

[video]

[paladinlost]

In your bed, at ninety, surrounded by four generations of descendants.

[video]

[reveiller]

Is that where you'd like to be?