It's not the answer she's quite expecting. Most people here had been unwilling or uninterested in speaking on philosophical terms. It was fair enough; there was enough practical work to do in a day to fill all the time you had and more. But Quintet hadn't been able to see it that way for a long while yet.
You couldn't escape the philosophy just by not thinking about it. It was as real as Art, and that was more real than flesh, some days. She turns her head to look at the little door she'd come in by; a shadow moves past it, wan and narrow. A snuffling. And then gone. She sighs.
"My professors would probably say that that's the fate of any society that fails to keep moving," She looks away from the door, finally, and stands to stretch and shake off the memory. Her professors had been little more than hypocrits in the end; champions of murder and suffering that preached society's advancement from a platform of human sacrifice. She drops to the floor with a thump and regards all of Felwinter's massive hulk from that low vantage. Does she looks small to him? Or weak? Does that mean that she is so? "Being able to kill people more effectively isn't strength, not even in nature. By nature's law, it isn't only the weak that die; it's everyone that dies. The Laws of Society exist to constrain nature, because otherwise real strength cannot exist at all. It sounds as if your people are forgetting that; I know what that looks like. It's why I wanted to study Law in the first place, and why I joined the Rationale."
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You couldn't escape the philosophy just by not thinking about it. It was as real as Art, and that was more real than flesh, some days. She turns her head to look at the little door she'd come in by; a shadow moves past it, wan and narrow. A snuffling. And then gone. She sighs.
"My professors would probably say that that's the fate of any society that fails to keep moving," She looks away from the door, finally, and stands to stretch and shake off the memory. Her professors had been little more than hypocrits in the end; champions of murder and suffering that preached society's advancement from a platform of human sacrifice. She drops to the floor with a thump and regards all of Felwinter's massive hulk from that low vantage. Does she looks small to him? Or weak? Does that mean that she is so? "Being able to kill people more effectively isn't strength, not even in nature. By nature's law, it isn't only the weak that die; it's everyone that dies. The Laws of Society exist to constrain nature, because otherwise real strength cannot exist at all. It sounds as if your people are forgetting that; I know what that looks like. It's why I wanted to study Law in the first place, and why I joined the Rationale."