[Adell tries to sound more positive, but at the same time calm and reassuring.]
That's a tough question. I've wondered the same thing.... quite a bit. Wondered if none of this matters, wondered if everything I do here will have no meaning if everyone forgets when they leave.
...And I think it's a load of crap. What we do, our actions here, make a difference. To the people in the enclosure, and to everyone outside. We wouldn't be called to do the things we do if we didn't make a difference. To change the world, even if so many of us forget. Even if everyone forgets, even if there may not be anyone who remembers the significance of it all... what we do here will still be done. We'll have made an undeniable mark on this world through whatever we do, even if we leave nothing but ruins and craters behind.
It's the actions of the present that matter most. Living in the moment. Your life's only on hold if you say it is, because your actions, your memories of those actions, shape who you are. You have to forge your own memories and path, and hold onto them with everything you've got. Don't let anyone, anything try to take those from you. And if they do? You fight. With everything you have, no matter how much that is.
[He pauses, and closes his eyes.]
And even if it comes time to leave this place. ...We'll find a way to remember. I know we will. We won't let anything take what matters so much to us.
[That's not spoken with fear, or dread, or any uncertainty whatsoever. It's as close to a promise as Adell can give in this situation.
Memories. Precious memories, the very core of what can help shape a person, the very treasure Adell has sought to liberate from the Overlord. The treasure of self, identity, growth, and experience. Every day, every time he thinks of the people he cared about who vanished, every moment he's had in Luceti, good and ill... he understands more and more the significance of the Overlord's Curse.
...If he has anything to say about it, he won't let that happen here either.]
[Voice 2/2]
That's a tough question. I've wondered the same thing.... quite a bit. Wondered if none of this matters, wondered if everything I do here will have no meaning if everyone forgets when they leave.
...And I think it's a load of crap. What we do, our actions here, make a difference. To the people in the enclosure, and to everyone outside. We wouldn't be called to do the things we do if we didn't make a difference. To change the world, even if so many of us forget. Even if everyone forgets, even if there may not be anyone who remembers the significance of it all... what we do here will still be done. We'll have made an undeniable mark on this world through whatever we do, even if we leave nothing but ruins and craters behind.
It's the actions of the present that matter most. Living in the moment. Your life's only on hold if you say it is, because your actions, your memories of those actions, shape who you are. You have to forge your own memories and path, and hold onto them with everything you've got. Don't let anyone, anything try to take those from you. And if they do? You fight. With everything you have, no matter how much that is.
[He pauses, and closes his eyes.]
And even if it comes time to leave this place. ...We'll find a way to remember. I know we will. We won't let anything take what matters so much to us.
[That's not spoken with fear, or dread, or any uncertainty whatsoever. It's as close to a promise as Adell can give in this situation.
Memories. Precious memories, the very core of what can help shape a person, the very treasure Adell has sought to liberate from the Overlord. The treasure of self, identity, growth, and experience. Every day, every time he thinks of the people he cared about who vanished, every moment he's had in Luceti, good and ill... he understands more and more the significance of the Overlord's Curse.
...If he has anything to say about it, he won't let that happen here either.]