Post by Bene Elohim on May 27, 2015 19:03:48 GMT -6
Sariel, Ramiel and Ananiel stand seemingly alone in the dark.
Sariel: Kyle Travis…
She pauses as the twins simply stare silently into the camera
Sariel: We don’t care. You are nothing to us and you will never be anything to us. We fight you because He commands us to do so and as much as we wish to please Him, every time we try to must something, some feeling, some emotional connection involving you and the coming fight…
She shakes her head, snorting derisively.
Sariel: You remove all doubt as to who you are. You are nothing, you a peacock strutting and preening, pretending to be a bird of prey hoping no one notices that you are not the great bird of prey. The problem is that everyone has already seen through your disguise, you have been weighed and measured and found wanting and with every word that spews forth from you, you simply throw more and more evidence onto the wrong side of the scales.
Pausing, Sariel takes a deep breath, almost like she’s forcing herself to continue.
Sariel: So far, there have been two promos from you, both equally light in substance. The first said you did not like us because we got the attention you believe you deserved and the second asked us if we got our thirty pieces of silver for a betrayal that wasn’t a betrayal. You have spent every second since your return telling the world that the Children are a false, toothless animal, crawling off to die in the woods and that you will simply walk up to this animal and beat it until it’s actually dead.
The twins shake their heads with disdain.
Sariel: For the sake of argument, let’s say you were correct and the Children are on their last legs. Then you sir, are an incredible coward, going after an already dying animal and promoting yourself as some great defender of the faith and hunter of great beasts, lying to the world about your prowess as everyone has always said you were doing. It means you are proving them all right by jumping into a fight only after all of the hard work and actual fighting is over, like a scavenger picking over a corpse because you know it poses no threat to you and because the real predators have moved on to other game after having their fill. That being the case, why would anyone care about what you are doing? Why would we care if we’re already vanquished? Why should anyone give you any more attention or any more exaltation when the kill is not your own?
The twins almost laugh.
Sariel: On the other hand, if the Children are not, in fact, a dying, wheezing animal, then you are the same delusional idiot bereft of anything resembling rational thought. You convince yourself that things are not how they are because then you would have to admit several things that you simply cannot bring yourself to admit. In short, you would have to admit that the world doesn’t revolve around you and that no one has ever treated you unfairly. In that case, then you have never managed to disprove what everyone already decided about you by Spring Slaughter last year and, in fact, have proven all of your naysayers right. In that case, why would we care about you? You’re an insect barely worth the effort of swatting away that will soon either go trouble someone else for attention or simply die off and never be heard from again.
She nods slightly, two fingers raised.
Sariel: Two possibilities and yet, only one conclusion, Kyle.
The second finger drops as she nods.
Sariel: Whatever you were before UWA, you’re not now and whatever you think you are exists only inside your own mind.
He hand drops to her side, the twins nodding their agreement.
Sariel: The fight will happen, and yet, it will matter not because no matter what happens, it will all be His will. If you fall, you are simply the trigger to bring Him to the world and He will show them what a mistake that was. If we fall, it was because He wished us to be the scapegoats used to take your sins upon us and purify you for His glorification. We are either your executioners or your purifiers and it does not matter which because, in the end, He will come and He will smile on us...
She raises her hands to the sky, the twins doing the same.
Sariel: We are the rocks upon which His Church will be built and so the Harbinger has said we must begin with you. He has commanded and so we will obey. His will be done…
Sariel: Kyle Travis…
She pauses as the twins simply stare silently into the camera
Sariel: We don’t care. You are nothing to us and you will never be anything to us. We fight you because He commands us to do so and as much as we wish to please Him, every time we try to must something, some feeling, some emotional connection involving you and the coming fight…
She shakes her head, snorting derisively.
Sariel: You remove all doubt as to who you are. You are nothing, you a peacock strutting and preening, pretending to be a bird of prey hoping no one notices that you are not the great bird of prey. The problem is that everyone has already seen through your disguise, you have been weighed and measured and found wanting and with every word that spews forth from you, you simply throw more and more evidence onto the wrong side of the scales.
Pausing, Sariel takes a deep breath, almost like she’s forcing herself to continue.
Sariel: So far, there have been two promos from you, both equally light in substance. The first said you did not like us because we got the attention you believe you deserved and the second asked us if we got our thirty pieces of silver for a betrayal that wasn’t a betrayal. You have spent every second since your return telling the world that the Children are a false, toothless animal, crawling off to die in the woods and that you will simply walk up to this animal and beat it until it’s actually dead.
The twins shake their heads with disdain.
Sariel: For the sake of argument, let’s say you were correct and the Children are on their last legs. Then you sir, are an incredible coward, going after an already dying animal and promoting yourself as some great defender of the faith and hunter of great beasts, lying to the world about your prowess as everyone has always said you were doing. It means you are proving them all right by jumping into a fight only after all of the hard work and actual fighting is over, like a scavenger picking over a corpse because you know it poses no threat to you and because the real predators have moved on to other game after having their fill. That being the case, why would anyone care about what you are doing? Why would we care if we’re already vanquished? Why should anyone give you any more attention or any more exaltation when the kill is not your own?
The twins almost laugh.
Sariel: On the other hand, if the Children are not, in fact, a dying, wheezing animal, then you are the same delusional idiot bereft of anything resembling rational thought. You convince yourself that things are not how they are because then you would have to admit several things that you simply cannot bring yourself to admit. In short, you would have to admit that the world doesn’t revolve around you and that no one has ever treated you unfairly. In that case, then you have never managed to disprove what everyone already decided about you by Spring Slaughter last year and, in fact, have proven all of your naysayers right. In that case, why would we care about you? You’re an insect barely worth the effort of swatting away that will soon either go trouble someone else for attention or simply die off and never be heard from again.
She nods slightly, two fingers raised.
Sariel: Two possibilities and yet, only one conclusion, Kyle.
The second finger drops as she nods.
Sariel: Whatever you were before UWA, you’re not now and whatever you think you are exists only inside your own mind.
He hand drops to her side, the twins nodding their agreement.
Sariel: The fight will happen, and yet, it will matter not because no matter what happens, it will all be His will. If you fall, you are simply the trigger to bring Him to the world and He will show them what a mistake that was. If we fall, it was because He wished us to be the scapegoats used to take your sins upon us and purify you for His glorification. We are either your executioners or your purifiers and it does not matter which because, in the end, He will come and He will smile on us...
She raises her hands to the sky, the twins doing the same.
Sariel: We are the rocks upon which His Church will be built and so the Harbinger has said we must begin with you. He has commanded and so we will obey. His will be done…
