What is Evil? What is Good?

[Hope98]

"I am not worried about myself. I am worried about the Druidians and about everyone else. I do not want the government to think I am a rebel. I have nothing to do with my father's work.....but they do think I am a rebel. And I am afraid, Zex. I am afraid that they will try to kill me."

Zex is such a mean, rude kid, but for the first time, he seems a little more sensitive.

[Zex]

"Bah, you worry too much. that agriculture center was way out in the middle of nowhere. i don't think Red Infinity even knows that eveyone is dead there. that's how dopey they are. so don't worry about it. but yeah, i want to leave too. not because i am afraid. I'm never afraid. but because these nature people suck."

I sit next to Hope.

"everything will be okay, Hope!"

[Hope98]

"I appreciate it Zex. You know, you aren't as obnoxious as I first thought."

I think about the path ahead of us. We should go. If I stay here, I fear that I will endanger the Druidians. I feel like I am being watched.

[Zex]

yeah, she totally likes me.
"You can always count on me Hope."
i wink at her.

[Genki]

I was having so much fun playing the Sylvan Horn, I didn't see that Lemminkainen was gone! now where did he go. i look around and see that all of these Druidian women were watching me play.
"Did you like my playing?"
"Yes, we enjoyed it," one says.
"It was lots of fun, i play oboe in my college symphony!"
"that's nice, i didn't think that Ursarians were that cultured." another says.

i'm sort of offended by this, but am used to hearing it.
"No, I was raised by humans."
"Oh, that explains it," a druidian with long brown hair states.
"you really can't generalize about people...you know....I mean...I know that Ursarians are thought of as brutish, but we all aren't that way. I'm a pacifist and a vegetarian...." i say.
"Yes, that is true. we've just never met an Ursarian like you, Genki." one girl says.
I think for a while. are there other Ursarians like me?
"So Genki, do you have a girl friend?" one asks.
"Yeah, all of my friends are girls...except Lemminkainen, now where did he go?"

I wander off and i can hear them whispering behind my back.

[Hope98]

Zex winks at me and I suddenly feel strange. He sits closer to me. This kid isn't coming on to me, is he? I stand up and walk away from him. I give him a puzzled look.

"I am going to find Genki and Lemminkainen. It is time to go."

[Zex]

she walk away from me.

"ooh, so she's the shy kind....playing hard to get...heh." I say to myself.

she must be only five years older than me. that isn't so bad. i once dated someone who was twice my age, but that was in Gallactros Standard Years, not Metric Space Years, so I really don't know how old she was.....
I was never very good with metric conversions.

[KitsuneHime]

Suzumi smiled, "At least you can't read my mind now." She thought back to when she first shape shifted. "You don't really have to think about it, just concentrate, and visualize the form you want." She glanced down at Riku, "Chesire told me something about a cure. It involves jumping through a mirror and going to this place, and drinking from a purple flask. I don't know if we should trust him. He did say that he'd soon be around to help...Anyhow, when we switch back, save me a punch or two, alright?" (( I have a few little magic tricks, as well. Help me think a few powers up, then. I don't really want to be all-powerful))

[Valodya Bassarov]

Bassarov and the others complete their grocery shopping and return to the villa. They made sure to give some of the people who were waiting in line, some of the rarer foods, like fruits and meat. Bassarov is happy to see the smile on a girl when he gives her some ripe red strawberries.

They return and stock the cubbards with the food.

"Thank you, Drizzel, for helping us out like this," Bassarov says as he stocks the shelves.

[Xanather]

In the necropolis Xanather plays a sharp note on his violen causing the dancing to stop. " Now my warriors the time has come to prepare for the next phase, the Nocturne if you will." A fallen angel walks up from a crypt carrying lamort's scythe and an onyx scythe with several unpronoucable words on it. " Ah Nocturne the scythe of Lamort and the Mementos Mori, my very own. Now my warriors let the dance of the dead begin." Several fallen angels starts playing a march as milloins of undead, demons, and other insanly demented creatures begin to march in file and rank out of the necropolis. Xanather himself soars through the skies with a pair of black feathered wings. He carries the two scythes and two spirits accompany him, one playing his violen, the other playing a piccolo. " Soon my bretheren we shall meet our desteny."

[Nightmare]

"No problem." Drizzel shakes his head and shift back to their old shape. "Ah, better."

He cracks his neck and smiles, "Alright, we should be set of a while. Now, what is the current course of action?"

[Gregory: The Storm Raven]

Gregory straightens, his hair blowing in the wind.

"Their starting."

He turns to his friends, his allies, the other Kegai. "Now it begins. Our place is here, our home is Earth. We will defend it."

[Valodya Bassarov]

"My only plan of action right now is to keep a low profile and try to stay alive. There are other rebels on Earth, but we are scattered and not united in ideologies. Thus, any future assault against Red Infinity is impossible."

[Dinari Dollar]

I didn't get a message from Drizzel, so I continue business as usual. I write a large check out to Red Infinity. That ought to buy me some freedom. I phone the ministry of finance and tell them that I am making another donation.

They say that capitalism is dead. that isn't true. its just waiting. Waiting for them to screw things up so bad that the people beg for "Captain America" to bail them out. So, I just have to wait, and wating isn't so bad.

Today looks like a nice day for a game of golf. i grab my clubs and tell my accountant to come with me. I need a caddy. We head out to my gold course. i think about Hope. I wonder if she is dead. i heard that her creator is dead. I wish my dad wouldn't have invested in her. it makes me a danger to the
system.
oh well, I'm sure Red Infinity will capture her, so I won't worry about looking guilty. i need them right now. they are an excelent business partner.

[Genki]

I find Lemminkainen flirting with some girls.

"We have to go, Hope is getting anxious," I say.