The null cone

[fermionprincess]

My good friends...

[Alessandra sits in front of the wall. Not just a wall - the wall of rememberance. So many names are written there, of White Chalice crew who departed this world.]

Were it not for your valiant efforts, would this very Champion still be able to recite these words, sit where she does? Somehow I find that most doubtful... yet, I cannot help but be overwhelmed by emotions of longing and melancholy.

I suppose...

I suppose I just miss you.

[Alessandra continues to drink her tea in relative peace, but her armored hand shakes while these words are uttered.]

[Yes, this is an invitation to remember and talk about dead characters.]

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[gurrenbrigbonded]

Matthew walks up to a patch of wall where a scrap of red cloth that matches the one tied around his wrist is tucked into a crack in the wall.

"Departed, yet not gone." He says quietly and solemnly. "Not gone in our hearts, and not gone in other worlds than these."

[fermionprincess]

Well said. What matters most is to exist in humanity's collective memory, does it not? To create an image of yourself, even once the physical being is gone.

[gurrenbrigbonded]

"Aff, you could say so." Matthew says.

"In the oldest faiths of the civilizations of earth, there was no glory or pride awaiting people in the underworlds after death: no reward or praise awaiting those who were quiet and privately virtuous."

He nods to himself. "To those old civilizations, it was the legacy that you left behind after death that was true immortality. Grand and glorious achievements...and heroic deeds."

[fermionprincess]

Ohh? But would you not say, that living a virtuous if quiet life is creating a monument as well, a foundation on which the future may stand on?

[gurrenbrigbonded]

"Aff, " Matthew says after a moment's thought. "But people will be less likely to remember it, quiaff?"

[fermionprincess]

People as a whole, perhaps. Yet, should it matter if your actions were remembered by millions, or but a chosen group of friends and close companions?

[gurrenbrigbonded]

"Aff, aff." Matthew says with a nod. "There is merit in that...yet you must admit that a large population is statistically more likely to preserving your memory in both writing and Oral recitation."

[fermionprincess]

Such is the case. Which makes it all the more tragic that for so many immortalized here...

[Alessandra's eyes go down the list.]

Their noble efforts and sacrifice remain so unknown by the populace at large.

I shall not let them be forgotten.