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TM ~ Hindsight is always 20/20.
Jan. 31st, 2007 12:26 pmParis.
A holy man stands in your way and asks that you cease and desist your attack on the city. You laugh of course, and then cut him down where he stands without giving it another thought. Taking his head and his quickening with one swing of your sword.
Looking back now, you realize that there were other ways you could have ended the confrontation. Ways that would not have led to your spending hundreds of years cloistered away in a musty church. Then you would not have ended up teaching mortals about something that you had never been interested in before you had stood before the gates of the city, and in doing so, making a mockery of your previous life.
Yes, looking back on things, it would have been better if you had simply ordered one of your men to take the man’s head instead. Then you could have made sure that you and the others were far enough away that the quickening would have been lost to the world forever.
Of course, you also realize that you couldn’t have possibly known what would happen with the man’s death, but that doesn’t stop you from replaying it in your mind with different outcomes. Learning from the past is always a good idea when it comes to preparing for the future after all.
OOC: Yes, I suck at this second person type of writing, but once in a while I like to give it a shot just the same. ;)
A holy man stands in your way and asks that you cease and desist your attack on the city. You laugh of course, and then cut him down where he stands without giving it another thought. Taking his head and his quickening with one swing of your sword.
Looking back now, you realize that there were other ways you could have ended the confrontation. Ways that would not have led to your spending hundreds of years cloistered away in a musty church. Then you would not have ended up teaching mortals about something that you had never been interested in before you had stood before the gates of the city, and in doing so, making a mockery of your previous life.
Yes, looking back on things, it would have been better if you had simply ordered one of your men to take the man’s head instead. Then you could have made sure that you and the others were far enough away that the quickening would have been lost to the world forever.
Of course, you also realize that you couldn’t have possibly known what would happen with the man’s death, but that doesn’t stop you from replaying it in your mind with different outcomes. Learning from the past is always a good idea when it comes to preparing for the future after all.
OOC: Yes, I suck at this second person type of writing, but once in a while I like to give it a shot just the same. ;)
