[ The Knight doesn't...quite understand that devotion to a god. The best they can do is liken it to duty - to the white-armored corpse who had died defending the White Lady. Ogrim's still-lasting loyalty to his king. A lonely figure in a tall tower, ready to sacrifice their life for a city and monarch they loved. Hornet's relentless patrolling of ruins long abandoned. The Old Stag, still serving for as long as his body lasted.
(Hearing a desperate, painful cry from someone not made for it. Coming back to a city they had fled, to end things for good.)
But this worship is clearly important to the Drifter - intertwined with the path they chose to walk, so they feel they have to say something. ]
AM-HAPPY
YOUR-GOD-IS-BETTER
THAN-ONE-I-FOUGHT
[ Good in motives. Not kind, or merciful. A purpose is no cure for sickness; it is a way to keep going despite it.
(They don't fully comprehend that drive to do something before death, despite the similarities between them. But they know that it is - important, to their friend, and so they try, struggle though they might, to see it from their point of view.) ]
WHAT-IS-CELL
DID-YOU-DESTROY-IT
[ And, blunt as ever. But they really do want to know, even if their questions are not as well phrased as they could be. ]
no subject
(Hearing a desperate, painful cry from someone not made for it. Coming back to a city they had fled, to end things for good.)
But this worship is clearly important to the Drifter - intertwined with the path they chose to walk, so they feel they have to say something. ]
AM-HAPPY
YOUR-GOD-IS-BETTER
THAN-ONE-I-FOUGHT
[ Good in motives. Not kind, or merciful. A purpose is no cure for sickness; it is a way to keep going despite it.
(They don't fully comprehend that drive to do something before death, despite the similarities between them. But they know that it is - important, to their friend, and so they try, struggle though they might, to see it from their point of view.) ]
WHAT-IS-CELL
DID-YOU-DESTROY-IT
[ And, blunt as ever. But they really do want to know, even if their questions are not as well phrased as they could be. ]