by Basil Benson » Sat May 04, 2019 4:16 pm
"And yet still, a great deal more souls that some would qualify as undeserving that will go before all of us.
That's the thing about death, it doesn't discriminate. We as a collective species just pretend that because we can cause it, we can make it do our bidding. Telling ourselves these lies makes us feel better about our place in our world.
But the truth of death is that death is like an abandoned cat. it comes when it feels like it, at it's own whim, and takes whatever, whomever, it feels like taking. It cares not that it's apathy for the human condition causes humanity distress. Why should it? In truth, the human treats it with equal disdain, only calling upon it when it suits them to do so. " So far, it seemed as if Basil was deliberately avoiding picking up what Franklin was laying down...
But then...
"I don't know what happened to you, but I will tell you this Franklin.
This school allows things that I frankly do not agree with, but if you've got some kind of revenge plot in your head, they also won't take kindly to you using the teams as your tool for revenge. They believe themselves heroes, and heroes tend to try to avoid outright murder at any cost.
and that's presuming you can even get it past them, because if I can see right through you, the team's telepaths will sniff you out in seconds."
His tone was neither admonishing nor angry, but matter of fact.