Can you really call that numbness? It just sounds like somebody who's unable to shut themselves off. Anger is an important tool too, you know. It's how you know you're still alive.
[ It's as non-judgmental as his questions tend to be, a simple question asked without any particular emotion, because in the end anger was the fight part of "fight, flight, or freeze" strategy that humans were born with, and it could be used in any number of ways. It could be used for personal means, for societal change, or any other number of things.
Stress was what indicated that there was something wrong, that a change was needed. It was a powerful motivator. But there's no judgment to his tone, though the mask remains. He can't see, but that's fine; he doesn't want to see when he's using that one - it can see just fine for him.
He switches it now, taking up the ice cream cone. He doesn't know what face should go with that line. ]
... Have you been here before? I wonder why that is... Maybe it's harder for people when they're spaced out so far apart, and there's people coming and going.
[ He stares ahead. ]
If you see half a dozen drop out over the span of a week or so, you stop caring pretty fast.. Well, maybe you don't, but it's only 'cause you got the nagging feeling that you're next. But you start making those decisions to kill others pretty naturally.
[ He's seen it play out innumerable times. There were some that were already starting to grow numb on his floor. ]
i close my eyes so i don't see
[ It's as non-judgmental as his questions tend to be, a simple question asked without any particular emotion, because in the end anger was the fight part of "fight, flight, or freeze" strategy that humans were born with, and it could be used in any number of ways. It could be used for personal means, for societal change, or any other number of things.
Stress was what indicated that there was something wrong, that a change was needed. It was a powerful motivator. But there's no judgment to his tone, though the mask remains. He can't see, but that's fine; he doesn't want to see when he's using that one - it can see just fine for him.
He switches it now, taking up the ice cream cone. He doesn't know what face should go with that line. ]
... Have you been here before? I wonder why that is... Maybe it's harder for people when they're spaced out so far apart, and there's people coming and going.
[ He stares ahead. ]
If you see half a dozen drop out over the span of a week or so, you stop caring pretty fast.. Well, maybe you don't, but it's only 'cause you got the nagging feeling that you're next. But you start making those decisions to kill others pretty naturally.
[ He's seen it play out innumerable times. There were some that were already starting to grow numb on his floor. ]