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Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
No, no, don't. Don't make me choose this. I don't want to do it again.
I-I, it, I don't know. I forgot everything. I forget everything. I came back. I come back, every time. It's scary. It's hard. I just want... I want Aubrey, I want to go to the woods and stay there. It's quiet there. It's safe.
Be calm, sir. It's safe here. I promise you. No one can make you choose anything.
[Soothe soothe soothe, because what else can you do? Just what has happened to this poor man? Short sentences, nice and simple.]
I can stay with you until you find your Aubrey. Would you like that?
[Soothe soothe soothe, because what else can you do? Just what has happened to this poor man? Short sentences, nice and simple.]
I can stay with you until you find your Aubrey. Would you like that?
Yes. Keep that man away from me. Keep them all away from me, please.
[Kieran huddles down, near enough. He shakes his head.]
I didn't even know how to walk. Now I know everything, and it all hurts.
[Kieran huddles down, near enough. He shakes his head.]
I didn't even know how to walk. Now I know everything, and it all hurts.
Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
Given the breadth of knowledge you'd be asking me to surrender, I must take the sensible route. An old man should be accompanied by his old memories, it seems.
A shame, though, to be forced into such a position.
[Kieran looks hurriedly in Solus's direction, gestures weakly and then shakes his head again, dissolving into slumped muteness.]
Now now, young man. That's sounds perfectly acceptable all parsed out so neatly, except, have I missed a step in your reasoning? Just how do you see this situation as, ah, how did you put it... hastening gain? It seems to me that a loss of memory would only lead to years of reacquisition! A terrible use of time, it seems to me.
You need not talk down to me.
You've missed the clearest step: reacquisition is still learning, perhaps in a new or more efficient manner. Perhaps further than you cared to pursue in the past. Regardless, to completely obstruct your ability to acquire new memories—and therefore continue learning more—strikes me as profoundly foolish, entirely lacking in ambition, and frankly, cowardly.
You've missed the clearest step: reacquisition is still learning, perhaps in a new or more efficient manner. Perhaps further than you cared to pursue in the past. Regardless, to completely obstruct your ability to acquire new memories—and therefore continue learning more—strikes me as profoundly foolish, entirely lacking in ambition, and frankly, cowardly.
Oho! My apologies! Consider it a bad habit, that. I don't seem terribly able to gauge how best to address others, or so I've oft been scolded. Never intentional on my part, I quite assure you. Never my intention to offend anyone, though that seems too often to be the case! Maybe this old man should be considering a fresh set of untainted knowledge after all, all the better to make myself a bit more amenable, eh? Hah, but enough of that, I apologise, take no offense and pay it no mind.
But oh, I have to grant that you're not incorrect in your estimation. Ambition just isn't a great priority of mine. I prefer the pursuit of knowledge for its own merit, simply for the knowing, though of course being in a position to pass that knowledge along to future generations is nothing to be shunned. I do consider myself a learned man, yes, and sadly beginning to become advanced in his years. I think I could do a greater credit chronicling the knowledge and memories I've previous acquired than I ever could in starting again at this plump old age! I'll have to leave such daring feats of ingenuity to you bold youngsters, I think.
Not a decision made gladly, but I must stand by my original thoughts. If you must deem me coward for them then I accept the mantle with some small pride.
And am I to take it, then, that you would take the opposite choice?
But oh, I have to grant that you're not incorrect in your estimation. Ambition just isn't a great priority of mine. I prefer the pursuit of knowledge for its own merit, simply for the knowing, though of course being in a position to pass that knowledge along to future generations is nothing to be shunned. I do consider myself a learned man, yes, and sadly beginning to become advanced in his years. I think I could do a greater credit chronicling the knowledge and memories I've previous acquired than I ever could in starting again at this plump old age! I'll have to leave such daring feats of ingenuity to you bold youngsters, I think.
Not a decision made gladly, but I must stand by my original thoughts. If you must deem me coward for them then I accept the mantle with some small pride.
And am I to take it, then, that you would take the opposite choice?
Oh, but dear. They want you consider the right thing. Doesn't it just make your heart ache?
Terrible, so tragic. The very thought makes me ill.
Darling, I do believe that is your answer to everything.
If you do intend to use it as an opportunity to educate some of these twittering sycophants, then by all means. Let's.
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