I13DT - Bird Hunt

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 6:42 pm

Nailah is standing in the top-most room of the lighthouse, looking up at the huge spotlight that's currently turned off.

Just do it, you've been avoiding her long enough now.

"Altamira, are you around? Can you hear me?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:41 pm

"I can pretty much always hear you, Nailah."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:45 pm

"I know, I just like deluding myself into thinking I have some privacy." she smirks faintly.

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:47 pm

"Then coming to the lighthouse was a bit of a silly idea," she laughed.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:04 pm

"I didn't know if you were paying attention."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:09 pm

"I pay attention," Mira said, emerging from one of the walls. "I pay attention to all the tiny details."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:12 pm

"Just one more thing in which you're better than most people then."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:15 pm

Mira hesitated. "I'm not so sure about that."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:16 pm

"Something wrong?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:17 pm

Mira sighed. "I'm pretty sure everyone hates me now."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:22 pm

"Hate is a strong word, but you have stepped on plenty of toes since you've come back."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:25 pm

"It just seems...I don't know. Like people are unwilling to listen to me straight up."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:31 pm

"We can be pretty set in our ways and convinced of our own ideas of how the world works."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:32 pm

"You're really not. Of all the races in the galaxy, humans show the most..potential to expand their minds."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:39 pm

"Not the experience I've had. At least for vast parts of humanity."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:39 pm

Mira waved her hand. "The very presence of this school should tell you something. This is not something that would happen everywhere."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:43 pm

"We also had to evacuate the kids from the States. But maybe it's that tendency to question the status quo and authority among the people gathered here that's part of it."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:45 pm

"And you were able to evacuate them. They weren't hunted down like dogs."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:51 pm

"No, but they're working on that. Or at least some of them are. But that's not the point. A lot of people here have been through the harsh lesson of not trusting those trying to pass down judgement on them in some way. Do you know why I asked you to go a week without using your powers?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:52 pm

"Because you wanted me to reconnect with my 'humanity'."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:57 pm

"I thought you might remember what it feels like to be limited and struggling. There is so much we don't know and it's frightening, in a way."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:59 pm

"No one should have to struggle."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:02 pm

"Wouldn't that hollow any accomplishments? If everything was presented to us? No one should have to suffer but I think that if you take away the challenge you take away some of the meaning, some of the experience of life."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:03 pm

"i believe that attitude is healthy...to cope with suffering. But that's all."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:12 pm

"Maybe that's true. I'm sure for some it is at the very least. But by reaching into our life and tweaking something so it's better makes people feel like you take away their choice. You force them to accept a pre-determined fate. And even if that's better, people will reject it out of fear. I know you only mean well, but do the Stantons? People see how easily you force something on them and they grow scared."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:16 pm

"Like I said. People fear me. I don't like it."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:23 pm

"And I'm trying to show you why. I thought maybe if you went a while without using your powers you'd still want to help people and do so in ways they're more familiar with."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:24 pm

"But even when I try to explain things, with words, they won't listen."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:35 pm

"People don't like being told they're wrong. To Sam it was a matter of principle. It's rare to see her angry, but she thought you were trying to rationalize violating one of those principles."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:36 pm

"I understand," Mira sighed. "It all just seems hopeless."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:40 pm

"Maybe you could try explaining it to me?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:41 pm

"How would you feel if everyone ignored your predictions, Cassandra?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:44 pm

"Frustrated. That's why I don't tell many people about them."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:45 pm

"You'd rather let people be miserable?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:49 pm

"Not every problem is one that's meant to be solved by me. And I can't help everybody. Some people have problems that I'm sure they don't want me helping with."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:49 pm

"So I'm just supposed to smile and nod while my children walk into the thresher. Great."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:55 pm

"How many people are suffering in this very moment? How many people on this planet could have a better life? Why are there floods and famines and wildfires and disease? Can you end all of that?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:57 pm

"Yes."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:59 pm

"But you haven't."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:59 pm

"Nor have I set myself up as God Empress of the university.

There's a difference between helping my friends, Nailah, and running the universe."

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