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[personal profile] inquired 2023-09-26 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. You're right.

[ his feelings are about the same. much like he was during the execution, temenos is, in his heart, a cleric, and it's the most obvious in moments like these: he's calm and placid, an open surface for someone to reflect upon. ]

Yet, in the narrative of this place we've found ourselves in, they'll claim it anyhow.
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[personal profile] inquired 2023-09-30 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ i'm going to fight dw for hiding this from me my SWEET PONTA

he is an old millenial but the sentiment is not lost. there's a crook of a slight smile, even in the face of this bitterness - it's familiar. ]


Some things are consistent, no matter the world, it seems. Power demands silence and cooperation, and truths are so often smothered in order to maintain it. [ so. yeah. he gets it. temenos reaches over, and after a second, sets his flowers down carefully in front of the memorial. ]

In a sense: perhaps that makes you more prepared to continue to push back against it. Does it not?