Re: Antisocial Darwinism
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2019 5:47 am
"Shit y'all, it was a joke. But sue me for hoping," Cheridene said in a tone of voice that was not yet dour but not quite so perky and energetic as the last time she said something.
She didn't think there was actually going to be a fucking boat meant to whisk them away off of Treasure Island. And even if it did exist, or they'd constructed one from logs, sea turtles and back hair, each of them had a sleek, metal reminder around their necks for why that wouldn't work. So if Sakurako or Aditi actually had a plan, one they had confidence in, Cheri hoped it was a little more complex than that.
All they had to do was keep their mouths shut about it for a while. Her social consciousness teamed with her ability to swallow her pride in not furthering discussion about it, and how saying 'hey we have a plan, join us' is already enough of an alert that it shouldn't really be worth saying 'but don't pry details out of us, the eeeevil terrorists are watching. Like, girl, they already heard us, they're already on to us. Some sick fuck was probably watching them at all times. If they weren't already before, they were now.
Yeah, there was nothing constructive in saying any of that. In fact, Cheri figured it was self-defeating; talking more about the thing and how you're not supposed to talk about it is, uh, talking about it some more and she didn't need that hypocrisy weighing her down. She only had a few more nights, pessimistically (as in realistically) speaking, to enjoy that lovely phenomenon where you get to keep yourself awake at night thinking about something stupid you said or did in elementary school. It'd be that, except poor choices that led to taking a one-way trip into the middle of the ocean.
Because, Cheri had to be real with herself, she probably wasn't getting off this rock. She wanted to, but no sense in getting your hopes up only to have them dashed on the rocks along with your brain.
This way of thinking couldn't be healthy.
"I'm in, let's go."
((Cheridene Williams, continued elsewhere))
She didn't think there was actually going to be a fucking boat meant to whisk them away off of Treasure Island. And even if it did exist, or they'd constructed one from logs, sea turtles and back hair, each of them had a sleek, metal reminder around their necks for why that wouldn't work. So if Sakurako or Aditi actually had a plan, one they had confidence in, Cheri hoped it was a little more complex than that.
All they had to do was keep their mouths shut about it for a while. Her social consciousness teamed with her ability to swallow her pride in not furthering discussion about it, and how saying 'hey we have a plan, join us' is already enough of an alert that it shouldn't really be worth saying 'but don't pry details out of us, the eeeevil terrorists are watching. Like, girl, they already heard us, they're already on to us. Some sick fuck was probably watching them at all times. If they weren't already before, they were now.
Yeah, there was nothing constructive in saying any of that. In fact, Cheri figured it was self-defeating; talking more about the thing and how you're not supposed to talk about it is, uh, talking about it some more and she didn't need that hypocrisy weighing her down. She only had a few more nights, pessimistically (as in realistically) speaking, to enjoy that lovely phenomenon where you get to keep yourself awake at night thinking about something stupid you said or did in elementary school. It'd be that, except poor choices that led to taking a one-way trip into the middle of the ocean.
Because, Cheri had to be real with herself, she probably wasn't getting off this rock. She wanted to, but no sense in getting your hopes up only to have them dashed on the rocks along with your brain.
This way of thinking couldn't be healthy.
"I'm in, let's go."
((Cheridene Williams, continued elsewhere))