DT1: A Different Kind of Wild

by **Hannah Murphy** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:41 pm

"Happy?" Murphy asks, sounding curious.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:42 pm

"It's kind of a mixed bag sometimes, but at least it feels like it's going somewhere, aye?"

by **Hannah Murphy** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:45 pm

Murphy nods in agreement. She sips her root beer.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:54 pm

"So what's your secret to being so zen?"

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:03 am

"What is, is," Murphy says.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:06 am

"Ah, kind of a 'this too shall pass' thing, aye?"

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:16 am

"Sort of," Murphy says.

"Has already passed," Murphy explains, correcting Sam's statement gently.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:17 am

"Haven't heard the old story?"

"It was about a king who gathered his philosophers and challenged them to give him a phrase that was universally true in all situations."

"So there's not one thing that will pass, or has passed. It's everything. Good or bad, everything passes."

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:29 am

Murphy shakes her head, "A river."

"Man stands on edge. Watches leaves floating. Says 'everything passes'."

"Flows to ocean. Evaporates. Back to the beginning."

"Perspective."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:33 am

"But he's never going to see the same leaf. He might see new leaves, but it's not the same ones. The water might always seem to take the same path, but it's never quite the same either. The banks erode, deltas build up, and the path of the river changes in tiny amounts over the man's life."

"So by the time the man dies, is it even the same river? Do his children see the same one? Do theirs?"

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:38 am

Murphy looks excited, "Exactly."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:39 am

"So it's not a perfect loop. It's kind of... variations on a theme, aye?"

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:51 am

Murphy nods, "Like the phoenix."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:05 am

"But that also means that you're always seeing something new."

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:15 am

"New, but always was new," Murphy explains.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:21 am

"Well yeah, everything's new until it isn't."

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:32 am

Murphy shakes her head again, "Never 'isn't'. 'What is, is'."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:47 am

"Well okay, I guess there's no... not being something. But there's never a way to always be the same thing."

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:48 am

Murphy just looks confused now.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:52 am

"Well okay, say someone dies. They don't stop existing, but they do stop being themselves. They're something else, and down the road they're several something elses."

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:54 am

"Never one thing," Murphy says.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:57 am

"Right. And the stuff that makes up you and me was several things at various points. It's bits of our parents, maybe even tiny bits of our grandparents. It's everything we eat, and we're gradually replacing what we're made of as bits of us die."

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:06 am

Murphy nods in agreement.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:08 am

"So nothing's ever not, but nothing's forever."

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:09 am

"Yes," Murphy says. She smiles. "Clever fox."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:10 am

"Yeah, well... I've had some time to think about things changing."

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:12 am

"Yeah?" Murphy asks.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:13 am

"Yeah, and what 'me' means, stuff like that."

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:15 am

"Opposite experience," Murphy says. "In the woods."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:16 am

"What, you mean you didn't have much time to think?"

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:20 am

Murphy shakes head, "Lose yourself."

"Bits fall off. Break."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:22 am

"Well I don't... think of you as broken, aye? You're kind of quiet, but I don't think there's anything wrong with you."

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:26 am

"Thanks," Murphy says, even though she obviously doesn't believe it.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:29 am

"It's what we were just talking about, aye? You're never not. You're never less. You're just different, and you still are."

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:33 am

This earns Sam another powerful hug.

"Thank you," Murphy says. Sincerely this time.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:48 am

"Oof!" She grunts, laughing happily.

"You're a hugger, alright."

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:51 am

"Just you," Murphy jokes.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 4:14 am

"Then I won't abuse my newfound ability to get my ribs crushed," she smirks.

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 4:20 am

"Sorry," Murphy says.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 4:21 am

"I'm fine, Murphy. Don't worry."

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