video, un: highgarden

[antleredcrown]

[The man in the video looks exhausted. There are circles under his eyes, his hair looks like fingers have been run through it a thousand times. It takes him a moment before he starts speaking.]

I feel as though I have failed you all. We all tried, we all did our parts. But in the end my book learning wasn't enough, and I am sorry that I was not able to find a solution to this problem.

I am also sorry I did not take early warnings seriously. There were those who tried to tell us about the possibility of a thing like this happening, and I thought -- surely not. Dragons don't simply return from the dead.

But here we are. Here we all are. The best we can do is move forward, I suppose, in any way we can.

Comments

[atwo]

You're still breathing.

I wouldn't call that failing. [ not yet at least. ]

[antleredcrown]

As are most of us, thankfully. A blessing, to be sure.

[atwo]

Not really a blessing, more like we just worked our asses off to make sure that not many of us got killed. If anything, the idiots in charge should have done something quicker and gotten more people to protect the cargo.

[antleredcrown]

Well yes, that too, obviously. I was merely expressing some sort of vague contentment at being alive.

[atwo]

Oh.

...

I mean, I guess that works too. [ she still has a lot to learn about people and their way of thinking. ]

Anyway. Hard to move forward with the whole beneath us frozen.