If I hated you, Kushina, I would not be talking to you.
[Her voice goes calm, that particular choice of words taking a bit of heat out of her anger. She may believe she doesn't belong here, and Kushina may feel the same way, but that doesn't change the fact that other people may make that choice. To make this place belong to them, to make it their home. It also doesn't change the fact that Kushina is a friend. Someone who she cares for.]
What I don't understand is how you can call them selfish.
[A beat, and Saori steps away from the camera a moment, scooping up something off camera and holding it to her chest.]
So what if they make the choice to stay? To accept fate, and throw themselves to the wind? Who am I to say that they should not make that choice? Who am I to say that's selfish? Because I know at least one man who's chosen to stay here to be with his family. Because he believes he belongs here, with them. I may not feel that way, and you may not, but that's his belief and his choice to make. What's more, would friends not be happy to know that someone they'd thought dead was alive and finding their own way, even if it was in another reality?
[Another pause and she turns back, eyes focused on Kushina, her fingers busy fiddling with a locket.]
And yes, you're right. This could very well be a more dangerous place to be in than other people's home realities, but to the people who're dead? Is the chance to live in a potentially dangerous place, any worse than a final end? I would say that it isn't, but then perhaps I'm of a different mindset. I know what lies beyond and I've rejected it. But in their position? To return to nothingness or to stay here? I cannot say I'd feel any differently.
[Perhaps because her greatest fear is that of death. A true, final demise. But then Kushina knows that well enough.]
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[Her voice goes calm, that particular choice of words taking a bit of heat out of her anger. She may believe she doesn't belong here, and Kushina may feel the same way, but that doesn't change the fact that other people may make that choice. To make this place belong to them, to make it their home. It also doesn't change the fact that Kushina is a friend. Someone who she cares for.]
What I don't understand is how you can call them selfish.
[A beat, and Saori steps away from the camera a moment, scooping up something off camera and holding it to her chest.]
So what if they make the choice to stay? To accept fate, and throw themselves to the wind? Who am I to say that they should not make that choice? Who am I to say that's selfish? Because I know at least one man who's chosen to stay here to be with his family. Because he believes he belongs here, with them. I may not feel that way, and you may not, but that's his belief and his choice to make. What's more, would friends not be happy to know that someone they'd thought dead was alive and finding their own way, even if it was in another reality?
[Another pause and she turns back, eyes focused on Kushina, her fingers busy fiddling with a locket.]
And yes, you're right. This could very well be a more dangerous place to be in than other people's home realities, but to the people who're dead? Is the chance to live in a potentially dangerous place, any worse than a final end? I would say that it isn't, but then perhaps I'm of a different mindset. I know what lies beyond and I've rejected it. But in their position? To return to nothingness or to stay here? I cannot say I'd feel any differently.
[Perhaps because her greatest fear is that of death. A true, final demise. But then Kushina knows that well enough.]