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Iorveth.

I can't find him. It is as before, is it not?

He will reappear again as he always does. He will apologize that he had disappeared in the first place. He would not leave me on my own, would he? No, of course not... elves do not abandon other elves. That is not in our nature.

Is that not right?

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[In the short time he'd known him, he'd never heard Yaha sound like that. Even if they weren't serious, he was a decent guy and that made Colby worried.]

Yaha, you all right? Who's Iorveth?

Oh, John.

No, I'm very sad. Iorveth is someone that I thought of as a father. He was the first elf that I had seen in such a long time. But that's to be expected when one's race is cut down, yes? Still... I had hoped to have been able to spend time with him. Or go with him. But he left without me.

It must have been too dangerous for me to follow... I do not wish to lay my body at his feet and call it his fault, after all. For he would see it that way even if I would not. Still... my heart does ache a bit.

I don't... I don't think people get to pick when they go, they just do. I mean if they did they'd at least give us a heads up, y'know? I don't know who this guy is, but I doubt he'd have left without you if he had the choice. [He knows he's not the best at this whole comforting thing, but his usual standby of mocking Yaha's pain just seems extra tactless right now.]

The powers that rule this place are very cruel. I suppose I should be happy that he did not leave me by his own wishes. I would have been a little hurt if he thought there was something wrong with me, but I would not mind it. There was so much good and righteousness inside of him... I am certain that he will bring right all the wrongs in his world with a cool head and just sword.

Uh, yeah. I'm sure he's, uh, smiting evil on a unicorn right now. [Because really, what do you say to that?]

I don't get why people go home at all. If we're supposed to be here fighting some war, why send us back? It doesn't make sense.

[ ... ] Something like that.

It really does weaken the morale of those that are left behind.

[...He's trying?]

Not only that--why bring us here at all? It's like saying "We need you--no wait, changed my mind. Go back to being dead or whatever, don't care about you anymore."

[ Yaha thought it was cute. ]

Because they're crazy. Constant war drives even Gods insane.

You sound like you're actually used to this insanity.

Not to this extent.

But enough that it is almost like home.

Like... fighting interplanetary evil and living on a giant turtle?

[ A soft laugh. ]

Constant strife to the point that even the Gods go mad. The battles that we all face small and big which chip away at our resolve.

What are you fighting for?

Peace.

The world was torn apart by the Empire eighteen years ago. Creatures that should never be called through in the dark started to make their way into my world. Insanity screamed through the world. Then famine, drought... horrible things which were unspeakable as people crawled their way back to the a more civilized manner of living. And we are still fighting for that peace.

Jeez, so you really are used to all this weird shit then. I thought we had it bad back home...

Well, I'm glad that you did not have as bad as I did. You are undeserving of it.

And you are? No one should be going through this horror movie crap!

There are those that believe I do.

The elves did not assist in the battle against those that were trying to call to those dark entities. We ... we did not know that was what they were doing. We were under the impression it was for land and influence. Who could think that there would be those who would desire their own annihilation? The truth came out too late.

By that time, the elves were all ... but I remained. And I was blamed for their sin in not helping when we could. Perhaps, if they did, such horrors would not have happened in the first place...

That's... bullshit! It's not like you were the one who made that decision.

I'm glad that you see reason, but when people are hurting... they do not.

I do not blame them, of course. [ Lies upon lies. ] It was just the way of things.

That's bullshit. Where I'm from, something happened and millions of people died. We aren't trying to blame each other for it. [...Except their totally blaming chicken.]

So... that means that you and the people you live with are stronger.

I could have told you that.

We just figured we should be working to fix the problem rather than bitch at each other over it.

But it's so easy to blame others...

And when things are easy, they are what is grasped first.

[Rubs his good eye.] You don't have to tell me that... I saw it firsthand when the whole bird flu thing first went down. I'm not saying we were perfect, but it didn't take us 18 fucking years to try to fix things.

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