Second Echo

[echo_of_a_jedi]

[Video]

[The COMP video shows Meetra in the same 'meditative' position on her bed that she took the first time she posted here, but with her expression far more grave...even a little afraid. She takes a deep breath before speaking.]

For the last day or two, I've felt...I don't know what I've felt. All I can call it is a disturbance in the Force, as if some great danger were right around the corner. I don't want to alarm anyone, but please be careful. If anyone needs any help or protection, I've awoken my Persona and I can fight, so don't hesitate to call me for help. Until then, I'll just be...in my room...meditating on what the threat could be. I really haven't felt something like this in years...

[It's clear to anyone with enough practice in reading tones of voice that "disturbance in the Force" or not, she's really afraid of something, but doesn't seem to have noticed it. Feel free to call her out on that. Also, any action tags will need to get through a deadbolted apartment door.]

Comments

[echo_of_a_jedi]

You treat fear as your enemy and then you ignore it. How's that rational?

[She looks over his shoulder at his Persona.]

Supposedly, they come out at moments of strong emotion or times of great need. So yes, he'll be here again for a while, I'm sure.

[greyerrant]

We don't ignore it.

We -destroy- it. We cut it out of ourselves like cancer, and crush it with our will.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

You can't destroy something that's a part of yourself. Block it out, sever it from your mind, but it will always exist.

[greyerrant]

Only as a concept.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

You're telling me someone as...indoctrinated as you are isn't prepared to fight concepts?

[greyerrant]

The Astartes themselves are a conceptual weapon. You tell me.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

I...

...

I'm getting too angry. This isn't natural, or right.

[greyerrant]

Consider the circumstances under which beings like me were created. Humanity had been sundered for thousands of years by storms that made interstellar travel impossible. We were surrounded by hostile aliens preying on us. We couldn't even unify Terra without a massive civil war.

The Legions were created to represent the noblest qualities of honor, bravery, strength and intellect which we could bring to the galaxy, and we cast fear out, because if we were to know fear, we could never complete the task of the Crusade, which was to free humanity from the fear and superstitions of Old Night, and unite it under the banner of the Imperium.

Unless you mean the imposition of fear upon us, and the terror that seems even now to be igniting itself in my very marrow. That isn't natural or right and I.... am actually angry myself. I don't like that an external force has this level of control over me.