Under the Colors

[Cephrien]

Ceph nodded and picked up the largest paintbrush.. work would get done faster that way.. He dipped the brush in the paint and began to spread it across the walls.

[Hoshi]

"This shouldn't take too long. I hope they like it." I say as I paint. The neutral color was probably a good idea.

[Xavier Jaures]

"Here he is! Wonderful. Phillipe, this is Leon Bonaparte. He is interested in joining La Resistance."
Xavier says to the exasperated Phillipe.

"How have you been, Phillipe? I haven't seen you for a while."

[Cephrien]

Ceph slightly chuckled as a thought crossed his mind. "..You know it's strange.. when i first heard of the Feminists, I actually expected an army of buffed up Amazons or something.."

[Hoshi]

"Really? That's funny. Everyone has these bad ideas of what feminists are, but really the ones I met are just normal women who care about women's rights. Maybe I should join the feminists if they let me."

[Cephrien]

Ceph rubbed the back of his head and smiled nervously. "..Ah..! don't get me wrong.. i totally respect women rights.." He said continued painting.

[Kith]

I file the paper work on the Mormons that Hedeon and I killed.

I reflect on what we talked about. I know it is wrong to sympathize with the religious, but they are so deluded, that I do feel sorry for them.

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My mother was like that. Deluded. She had to have been.

I think that religious people can be saved if only we can tear from them the religious ideas that strangle their minds.

They could grow and become thinking people, rather than lambs and children of non existant gods.

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What can I do? Is death liberation for them?

I sit back in my desk and try not to think too much.

[Hoshi]

"I really don't see what women have to complain about nowadays. Women are equal, not like long ago. Our leader is a woman...well, Lin Sat is our real leader, but you know what I mean." I say as I paint some more.

[Damascus]

Damascus' eye opened abruptly, his pupil a miniscule black dot inside of his fire-red iris. He looked fearsome, feral, then.
But then his eyes adjusted to the light, he realized it was Aung San Suu Kyi, and he sighed, stream billowing from his nostrils.

-You startled me.- He said. That would've been, normally, impossible to do, given that its pure instinct for a dragon to sleep with one eye open slightly. Damasucs felt like weeping. His nightmares never lessened.

-Don't feel too bad, Minster. We all wish we could do more than we actually can do.- He said, looking rather sad. -I, at times, wish that I wasn't immortal, that I could die as easily as humans.- There was a long pause. -I greatly fear death, though. I'm afraid that there is nothing after my heart stops beating, after my brain stops working. Nothing but me as fertilizer.-

The dragon sighed again, more steam created from his exhalision. -To bad that those who are deserving don't always get what they ask for.-

He shook his gigantic mass and streched, careful not to hit anything with his wings or any other appendiges. -So, are we going to go looking for the anarchists again, Minister?-

[Cephrien]

Ceph lowered his eyelids and thought for a second. "...Maybe their just afraid that things will go back to the way they used to be.. and they want to be ready if that happens.."

[Aung San Suu Kyi]

"There is no hope of negotiating with them. You can not make peace with those who are against government entirely. I think we should visit the feminist base and offer our help there. But I am very afraid they will attack me."

[Hoshi]

"That makes sense, well, maybe once they arrive here we can ask them what they believe." I try to be cheerful about this.

"It looks like the painting is done, want to sit outside and relax?"

[Cephrien]

Ceph put down the brush so just the tip was going into the paint bucket. He nodded and then shrugged. "..Sure if you want.." He replied.

[Lemminkainen]

(To La Resistance)

I hang out at the rebel base and hear these French guys talking about their nationalist movement. Finland needs to have a nationalist movement.
I step up to them.
"Hey, you don't mind if I hang out with you guys? I was just listening to everything that you were talking about and thought it would be cool if Finland had a nationalist group."
I extend my hand to them.
"My name is Lemminkainen by the way."

[Hoshi]

We sit outside, just in time to watch the sun setting. The sky looks like it is on fire.

"Cephrien, I really am happy. A lot of people fight Red Infinity, but I really feel we are doing a good thing. I feel it in my heart."