Voices Like Rain

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[18:17] <Diviara> I do hope you are satisfied with me.

[18:17] <Talo-Toecan> Oh?

[18:17] <Diviara> I Lost my brother to your cause now too...

[18:18] <Diviara> And ultimately wil lose myself

[18:18] <Diviara> I have sent for my son.

[18:18] <Talo-Toecan> "Your cause"

[18:18] <Diviara> He will use some subterfuge but I am hiding him away elsewhere

[18:18] <Diviara> he is the last I have left alive

[18:18] <Talo-Toecan> You say this as if you do not share our cause

[18:19] <Talo-Toecan> That you do not believe in it, and yet make this sacrifice

[18:19] <Diviara> I do what I do for my brother and for you

[18:19] <Diviara> But I still hear the lord when I sleep

[18:19] <Diviara> and he still speaks in my ear

[18:19] <Diviara> Only they both do now

[18:19] <Talo-Toecan> For that you have my personal thanks, and I am endebted to you in certain ways.

[18:19] <Diviara> and it sounds like rain

[18:20] * Diviara falls silent

[18:20] <Talo-Toecan> Ah, but Uncle, rain is such a pleasant thing at times...call it the truth, the voices War in your own mind.

[18:22] <Talo-Toecan> As for satisfaction, the truth of the matter is that there exists quite a difference between being satisfied and being happy. Just as there are so many reasons that neither can be the case at times.

[18:23] <Talo-Toecan> In the end, however, it is not satisfaction that I feel. It is Pride in my family.

[18:23] <Diviara> I did not expect you to be happy Talo.

[18:23] <Diviara> At this time such is not available at all

[18:23] <Diviara> My brother is not the first nor the last to die

[18:24] <Diviara> and not the first or the last in this turn of the wheel even

[18:24] <Talo-Toecan> I expect, without much regret, that I too will die before the conclusion to this is reached, Uncle.

[18:24] <Diviara> The bodycount is however rising

[18:24] <Diviara> If such happens to you

[18:24] <Diviara> It shall mean that I am already dead

[18:25] <Diviara> Unfortunately for that disease

[18:25] <Diviara> I cannot offer any assurance

[18:25] <Diviara> Save that he still whispers in my head

[18:25] <Diviara> and he sounds like rain

[18:25] * Talo-Toecan sighs even in their minds. "Then I shall look forward to seeing you in whatever afterlife we reach."

[18:25] * Diviara falls silent again and you feel him actually disengage this time

[18:27] * Talo-Toecan wonders how privately his thoughts remain. "Rain...a gentle shower, or the brooding storm? For his sake, I hope yet the former."