CONTINUATION POST

[justaking]

(no stop putting your head in the gutter it's not always like that)

Comments

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[senior_citizen]

[ s....shrugs ]

Just about the game.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[justaking]

What about it?

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[senior_citizen]

Trying to think of what I could have done better.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[justaking]

Hindsight being 50/50 and all that?

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[senior_citizen]

Something like that.

[ weak smile ]

It's just hard to volunteer for things without feeling like a hypocrite.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[justaking]

Because others will too simply because they're dangerous things?

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[senior_citizen]

There's that. But - well, you know what I look like without skills.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[justaking]

I do. I don't see how that makes you a hypocrite, though?

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[senior_citizen]

How do you ask to take damage when you know you'll be hurt more by it?

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[justaking]

[.... slow smile]

You ask by saying you want to share the burden. You might not be able to do as much as others, but you want to do your part all the same. Because you're friends. And friends help each other, no matter what.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[senior_citizen]

Can't make that claim with people I don't know.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[justaking]

Mmm, true. But asking to share the burden helps all the same.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[senior_citizen]

Does it? If they have to watch me instead...

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[justaking]

You have to watch them do it too.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[senior_citizen]

I know.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[justaking]

That's the point. It's painful to watch each other suffer, but if you're all sharing in it, at least the burden is on all of you instead of only some.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[senior_citizen]

... Guess so. I can try that next time.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[justaking]

[nudges]

There's a time and place for protecting others. But there's also a time and place for putting your faith in those who want to fight right alongside you too.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[senior_citizen]

[ smiles a bit ]

I know, I know. I do that too.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[justaking]

Good. Because there's an awful lot of heavy hitters here in several different ways.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[senior_citizen]

[ a small smile ... which fades, after a moment ]

Doesn't always help even then. I thought we were going to die at the end.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[justaking]

No, not always. [agrees] Luckily we could reach you all from our end.

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[senior_citizen]

[ nods ]

Good thing. Any later and ...

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[justaking]

We'd have more of a tragedy on our hands, yes.

[idk tho, nick of time rescues seem to be a thing here...]

Re: Day 328, Sunrise

[senior_citizen]

[ true. he nods again, going very quiet. ]

I just - when I thought that was the end, I -