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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacConnell" data-source="post: 7991077" data-attributes="member: 6855223">[ATTACH=full]122060[/ATTACH]Adisakti makes noise between a laugh and a snort, then states in Shimadow, "Tha gernael kai tha echei lipos!"[spoiler=Shimadow]"You two are going to grow old and fat." ...speaking of Vittero and Maka[/spoiler]The expression on his face then dramatically changes and he, for once, puts away his residual childishness. He speaks in Maldrog, gesturing with a cupped hand, palm toward himself, rather than in an accusatory manner."Conflict and war are about desire. The motivation is acquisition and / or control. It is the very fact these acts of violence are being conducted by proxy, using deceit, that makes our resistance noble and just. It is others who decide if our reputation from the endeavor brings us honor or valor or infamy, not the standards we place on ourselves. Yes, those very people who anger me because they are too timid or lazy to fight.""The ideology that motivates us may be unique to each of us, but championing the cause should unite us. We are friends. We should offer no dispersions to our differences, for that would make us like our unseen enemy. I fight because I am angry. I am angry because my father is a kicking horse (colloquialism for a bully). I am angry for the deceit. I am angry because the populace is blind and deaf, but I say our cause is just. If we lose this war, no ideology will matter. We will be dead and forgotten.""Forget the girls, because Vittero identified himself as an understudy priest, I think he can command them. I do not know or care about all that hierarchy. I say we let the girls leave on their own, help Vittero and Maka here for a day, then the three of us swim the river right here. It is, what, 200 strides across? I think I could swim that in 20 minutes, 30 tops if the current is stronger than I perceive, which would only carry us downstream, the direction we are going, anyway."</blockquote>

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