8th Wave

[tentacruelest]

Th' next time this Barge feels like poking around in my head, I'll be keeping to my quarters. The lot of yeh - useless dregs not fit to scrub a floor. It's bad enough I'm locked in here with you, I don't need to call any of yeh friends.

[Private to Bush]

Was dealing with me yerself so difficult that you sought to work through less offensive channels, Captain?

[Private to Arthas]

A word, my king.

[Can you feel that heavy sarcasm, Arthas?]

Comments

[tentacruelest]

I'd love t'hear how you intend to force me, Marsh. Torturing others is the only entertainment I seem to get these days.

[myironeyes]

I don't plan to force you. I'm simply telling you that - entertaining or not - this will have the opposite effect from what you want.

[tentacruelest]

Nothing else appears to be working.

[myironeyes]

What else have you tried?

[Because mostly when he hears you talk, it's threats. Just saying.]

[tentacruelest]

Being left alone. Ignoring others in the hopes that I too will be ignored.

[myironeyes]

Well then. That's two tactics down.

I understand the desire to be left alone. More than I can say. And I am sorry this place is not...conducive to peace. But picking fights is even less so.

[tentacruelest]

If I cannot have peace, I would have screams instead.

[myironeyes]

You could, if you did not abandon the possibility.

I will not say swiftly, or easily, because I do not know the length of your suffering. But I will say that I have found...measures of peace, long after I believed it impossible.

That would not have happened if I had turned to cruelty.

[tentacruelest]

I turned to cruelty long ago. I was a feared name among cruel men. There will never be peace for me.

[myironeyes]

[Quietly, because this is not something he's told...anyone.]

There are people in my world who worship me as the face of death. It is a position I - thoroughly earned.

Peace does not erase, and is not forfeited by, what came before. It is a matter of - small moments of quiet on our journeys.

I will leave you be, now.

[tentacruelest]

And there are those who feared me as the face of purgatory before their final step into hell. But those times are over.

Off with you, Marsh.