Video; Dream a little dream with me

[ushahin]

[It's been a while since Ushahin has posted to the network. He always ends up enjoying the responses he gets, for it gives him a good pulse on what the cave residents are up to. It's time for another one of what Sans once called his "philosophy hour."

He's sitting outside, and for once, is wearing sunglasses, hiding the worst of the damage done to his eye sockets. It appears that he's watching something up in the sky, the moment of his head going round and round.]

I used to wonder sometimes if being brought here was a punishment for all the wrongs I have done in my life. I don't suppose it is so, but sometimes, the idea seems to have merit. Tell me, what is the worst thing you have done in your life? No lying or vague answers for this one or I'll pull it right out of your heads. Just tell me the truth.

[What he's been watching rapidly descends, revealing the dot in the cave ceiling to have been Fetch, his raven friend. He lands on the ground and hops over, giving whoever is watching an extreme close-up of the raven as he pecks at the device. He gives out a guttural Grrrawww! to Ushahin, who seems to be listening to it as if it's actual words.]

I suppose you are right. Fair trade and all that. I won't tell anyone else. You don't live to be my age without learning how to keep a secret. And if you tell me one, if you would like, I'll tell you one of mine.

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[ushahin]

Oh? Then what would you consider a fair one?

[His voice sounds soft as he answers, almost as if he's not really focusing on the task at hand.]

[64th]

I haven't decided. Why do you want to know how bad we've all been? Trying to figure out who has the most evil lurking inside them?

[ushahin]

Evil is just a point of view. I've been called it often enough to second-guess my own actions. If all that is good thinks you evil, are you?

[He's never been able to answer that question. He'd spent a thousand years serving a god the rest of the world called wicked, cruel, and evil. But to his followers, he had been compassionate, the only one to turn to when the rest of the world shunned them. Ushahin still didn't know who had been right. He never would.]

Consider this an offer of therapy of sorts. No one should keep darkness inside them forever. It eats away at the light until it devours it whole.

[64th]

No one's all good. [ no one she's met, anyway. ]

I don't need your help getting the darkness out. [ she laughs. ] My darkness was broadcast on national television for everyone to see. It's never been anywhere but out.

[ushahin]

People do so love to watch the misery of others. It gives them a yardstick with which to measure themselves against and proclaim that at least they aren't as bad as all those people.