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elysium ([personal profile] transmit) wrote in [community profile] synflux 2024-05-18 02:12 pm (UTC)

I'm not in the habit of gambling with my life. What's a little harmless fun?

[ He says it with a certain amount of finality. Or so it goes, but it's a little more complicated than that when there's a flicker of something else in his gaze for that brief second. At least, if one were to take his words at face value, the distinction is made clear: there's his life, then everything else. Unaddressed are the things he would weigh as heavily as the former, tangible anchors that have kept him from crossing said line.

So he sits back. There's a pause.
]

I never liked that analogy. Either you just take another train, or the train itself will eventually circle back. [ for once, he thinks the technicality matters. ] Lightning in a bottle. A comet passing by. Even a rainbow after a storm—they're much rarer occurrences.

[ Like Elysium himself………. Sampo can have his laugh. ]

Focus too much on the small stuff, you miss the big picture. Or do you truly lament such minutiae?

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