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king "#1 shitposter" gilgamesh ([personal profile] babbylon) wrote in [community profile] futurology 2015-12-16 01:28 am (UTC)

Boredom.

[He sounds depressed. More so than he'd been in that cell. As if there were no greater foe he faced, and perhaps now it is true; perhaps he has grown so old and so jaded that he's simply tired of everything. A life lived only for the promise of fleeting excitement, for wine, for women, and for dying pleasures.]

I don't want it back. It was intended as a gift. To bring you some degree of peace, because I felt sorry for you in all your wretchedness.

[The words taste bitter on his tongue. He spits them out, unwanted.]

I can see now that was a mistake.

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