Q'Barra: Facing Truth Chapter 2

"That was certainly...effecient, Trebuchet," Darrick says in a faintly horrified tone. "Under the circumstances, we might perhaps have offered them a chance to surrender, and gain some intelligence from them."

Sharing a glance with Catherine, he offers an uncomfortable shrug and says quietly, "We're at war, I suppose. In a way. There's a fine line between fighting honorably and fighting foolishly, and I'm...I'm not at all certain where it lies right at the moment."
 

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Sepoto looks from Catherine to Darrick, his expression sympathetic but somewhat stupified just the same.

"Friend-Catherine, Friend-Darrick...the trap on the door was of the bandit's design...had we not found it, do you think the bandits would have been as sympathetic for our dead or injured companion? I think not. It is not war. It is simply the law of the jungle."
 

Charles chuckles, "Sep is right. I do not mean to be rude in anyway or have us clash over moral ideas and opinions, but in environments like this... you have to put your humanity and your opinions behind your weapons and feet. The superior survive, not the justified. Law of the jungle, indeed.

He coughs slightly and stops talking, rushing to the front to be with the other scouts.
 

"Perhaps it is the law of the jungle, but surely we are more than mere beasts?" Catherine shakes her head ruefully. "Let's just move on."
 

Yeoman said:
"Perhaps it is the law of the jungle, but surely we are more than mere beasts?"

Sepoto frowns slightly at these words, sure that the inference is unintentional, but stung all the same. He lopes forward and ahead of Charles, scouting the corridor to the south.

*Sigh* It seems Sepoto is never meant to understand humans...
 


Kaelan

"Good point Treb", he gives the bodies a quick once over, looking on belts, in pouches as well as any obvious places around the room. Kill or be killed, that is what it boils down to.
[sblock=ooc]Take ten on search, I think that gives me a 12.[/sblock]
 




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