When Silence Starts Singing

[Matsumura]

Matsumura collapses to his knees, looking at the ground.

"I don't have a choice.... not anymore."

He lets his face fall into his hands and he begins to gently cry.

"Is this really the path I must take?"

He wipes the tears away and begins to pray. After a slight pause, he gets back on his feet and retains his posture.

"Yes, this is what must be done. I have no control. Hopefully when this campaign is over, I will be able to find peace. I will see you all in a little while. Right now, there's someone I've gotta see."

With that, Matsumura teleported away. He only wanted one thing at the moment, and that was to see Varsha. He reappeared in front of her, but to his surprise, she was not alone. Matsumura turned to the stranger.

"How? How? How........ how are you still alive? I absorbed you. I feel the power surging within me, I know I did it. How are you here........... NOVA!?"

[Andrew Kasher]

"I hope people remember me for more than my disabilities. They mocked and ridiculed Helen Keller in the papers, and in the American history books, she was nothing more than her disabilities. They castrated her memory. Now, she is used as a propaghanda tool to illustrate how cruel the capitalists were. Still, people are not taught her ideas. It makes me quite angry, to do that to someone's memory," Andrew says. He seems someone passionate about the topic, but his voice is calm.

"I'm flattered you would compare me to someone so brave," Andrew says, blushing a little. "I don't deserve that sort of praise," he mumbles. "You've probably met a lot of interesting people."

Andrew changes the subject abrubtly.

"Classses are interesting. I am studying psychology and music. I tried to pick fields that aren't too tainted by Red Infinity. There is still a lot of propoghanda, considering what music we have to play, and what we learn in the psychology course, but after I sort though it and pick out the obvious propoghanda, the information is very useful. My psychology professor is sympathetic to our cause, and he has given me some... supplemental reading. I hope the Ministry of Terror never catches him. He is a good person."

"Would you like something to drink? I don't have anything alchoholic, as I am a bit of a lightweight when it comes to that stuff."

[Spirit of Nova]

"Did you notice that your personality was not affected by the absorption? That is why I am here. You absorbed my body, my strength, my power, my very existence. But there's one thing you didn't take, and that was my spirit. You knew that taking my spirit would corrupt you, so you chose to take away everything and leave me as a lifeless shell. It was a good plan, and I didn't even know that the spirit could survive without the body and the power. I guess I didn't really survive. I can't touch anything, I can't be touched, I don't exist on your plane of existence, but there's a plus to every bad circumstance. I can't be hurt at all. Anyway, you're probably wondering why I'm here. I always wanted to see the human girl that you love so much. I wanted to congratulate her for breaking the warrior in you and changing you into some kind of pacifist panzy. All of my mocking and insults couldn't break your warrior mentality, but the heart of such a gentile creature worked like a charm. Heheh, it's funny. Hahahahaha, oh Matsumura you are a card."

[Elijah Debs]

((About Helen Keller was mainly a fact used since many people don't know that she was a socialist and she joined the party around the time Eugene Debs was running for president the first time. So it was mainly to contextualize the time that Elijah would have been from))

"I am sorry to have insulted you like that. Maybe I should go." Elijah replies.

"I only brought it up...since I was hoping you would have asked me about my father. I am proud of him, he was a good man. I meant nothing more by it." he says now backing towards the door in shame.

"I should learn to be more sensitive."

[Linette]

Linette nods slowly. "Ah... okay. That's cool!" She smiles. "But, mom... can we do something about this pink and white? I mean, really.."

[Ichiro Sazuki]

Ichiro looks at the bulleten for where to go.

Hmm...My name isn't here...Well I guess thats because I'm new, so I'll just go wherever there aren't to many people.

Ichiro studied the numbers and screamed aloud,

TO INDIA...Well...To the subcontinent of asia...

Ichiro got on a plane and went on his journey to India. A new foriegn land, that he probably wouldn't understand at all. One problem was, he wasn't sure if he could continue his schooling there.

[Lady Violet]

After finishing my work, I leave my office and decide to take a walk through the park.
The past few days have felt empty. I am blanketed in loneliness.
I have not seen Hikari, Chao, or Liang.
I sit on a bench and think to myself how this silence in my life is strange and threating. It pits my mind against myself, for I feel I think too much.

Work is no longer a remedy.

[Nami]

Nami, now being left alone sits down in a chair. She feels slightly depressed at being one of the only ones not talking to someone, but that was the way life was. "I'm going to visit some other places." She says to any one who may be listening before walking outside and to a telaportion(spl?) booth.

She takes it to Helsinki and walks down the street, hoping to see someone she could speak with. After having found no one she takes one to India, to talk with the rebels there. Maybe she could learn something new.

[Chai Ling]

"Thank you Anutsaka, I like it here. I like being away from the city and the noise. I feel a greater connection to the universe and to nature here. I feel syncronized, if you understand what I mean."

I am a pantheist, so I do not subscribe to any religion. To me, nature and the universe are god. There is no supernatural, only the vast mystery and beauty of the natural. This is something to be worshiped in itself.

[Varsha]

"Mat!" Varsha smiles, happy to see Mat again. She stands and gives him a small hug. "I'm happy to see you again." She says. She wasn't sure what they were talking about but oh well..

[Indira]

"You are a member of the Eternal Light, Chai Ling? What do you believe in?"
I wish I had more direction in that department.

[Silver Crystal]

Silver walks into Lady Violet's office smiling.

Hey! Hope your'e not busy or anything. I just wanted to know if from now on i can do paperwork and stuff instead of missions.

[Anima]

With Bassarov gone, I return to the base and continue working on it.

[Chai Ling]

"I am a pantheist, which is someone who believes that god is the universe. I do not believe in a personal god or in the afterlife. I believe that we live eternally by our actions, and also by the fact that our matter and energy can not be destroyed. Therefore in some form or another we always exist and always have." I explain to Indira.

"In short, I worship nature and the universe. There is no god or spirit, but there is beauty and creativity that should be celebrated none the less."

[Andrew Kasher]

((He's not angry at you. Don't worry. It seems like an issue he would really care about. He's not insulted. He is talking about people in general, in the future, when they read their history text books, assuming such a future ever exists.))

"No wait!" Andrew says, getting up suddenly.

"I'm not angry at you. It's just something I'm very passionate about. I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression. Really, I'm not insulted or anything. I'm actually quite interested. What was she really like? You had the opportunity to meet her..." Andrew says. Somehow, he always manages to put his foot in his mouth when he talks to someone for an extended period of time.

"Don't be embarassed because I have a terminal case of foot in mouth disease.... well, that's what Amanda, my mom calls it... d**n it...." Andrew says, struggling for words.

"Please. Um....."

Andrew tries to think of something to say.

"Are you related to Eugene Debs in some way? I was meaning to ask you that actually..."