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[ Charles is standing in a field. Behind him - in a distance is a house that is his in Westchester in 1962. It's quiet here, and he is enjoying the quiet, though he definitely wasn't expecting it. Last he recalled, he was dripping wet and standing aboard a CIA ship. This was a pleasant surprise, and he was mostly aware that it was a dream. He let his hands slip into his pockets as he took to the quiet grounds.

It is bright outside, cloud free. He looks up, a smile spread across his lips. He thinks of Raven, and how much she might enjoy a few moments here with him. Then he thinks of those CIA agents that he had just met. The clouds change just a little bit when his thoughts change, briefly darkening. The smile fades, just a little, and is replaced with curiosity and a bit of concern.

He turns on a heel and looks around. He's never had a dream be so vivid. ]

[[ ooc; yaaaaaay. finally first posting. Also! permissions posts are good for telepaths. You can also note here on yes or no on mind-reading. :) ]]

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Children are among the few completely honest creatures. Maybe they should be on thrones.

[Well, it'd be a better alternative to Beryl, at least.]

I can think of so-called Queens who'd be outdone by children.

I'm sure we all can.

And where do your loyalties lie?

That question has no right or good answer.

You need an answer to it that you'll stand by.

I stand by my kind.

You separate yourself after all, then.

I have hope.

Hope alone won't get you anywhere. Actually, it won't get you anywhere at all.

My hope isn't alone. I'm not naive.

Good. Naivety only damages a world.

It doesn't damage it, just keeps it from progressing.

Naivety has destroyed worlds before now.

Edited 2011-09-06 10:04 (UTC)

What?

Worlds have died before because of naivety. And willfulness.

Don't be so carefree.

What worlds?

Mine, once.

But you're here. Did you die?

I did. [She says this simply, as if it's not the horrifying part.

It isn't. The horrifying part had been that the one who destroyed them all was supposed to be their light and their hope. The horrifying part had been that everything ended. The horrifying part had been that it began to repeat.]

I was reborn much later.

I am sorry.

[Empty words, and she does not answer them directly. She has no need of pity.]

That's why I speak the way I do about this.

I don't completely understand, though.

Separating yourself from it...is it difficult?

Edited 2011-09-10 10:10 (UTC)

[She pauses. A few years ago - perhaps even as close as a few months ago - she'd have insisted immediately that this wasn't a personal matter. It can't be.

But it is. Everything she hates, accuses, and suspects the princess of, really comes down to the princess - Usagi - and her.

Besides, it is possible that anyone could separate herself from the destruction of her world?]

I'm part of it. I fought that war in the past, and I fought this time, too.

[ Charles never understood how people like you and Erik did it. He couldn't separate himself from his small defeats. ]

The same war?