Were they anything more than machines, then, if they had no ability to change?
[ That rankles as much as the 'never going without'. That, at least, he's dealing with here, but he does find it an unpleasant, horrible little feature of this world. Silco doesn't like it, the implication that everything is provided for, that there is little struggle.
He's a man that needs it, the fight, to function. To survive. To thrive. He's lived for spite for so long, that what else could he do? Could he be a man without it?
No, he thinks. This world of the Drzyr was...
Everything he wasn't. Ascending beyond his place, pointedly fighting with everything he had to get away from humble origins to something better. Being punished, and persevering even so. ]
It is inequity. They may have what they need, but what more do they have? Anything? Anything to grow beyond?
[ It doesn't sound like it.
He is also, very pointedly, trying not to start up the... talk. About revolution from such things. It does no good here. ]
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[ That rankles as much as the 'never going without'. That, at least, he's dealing with here, but he does find it an unpleasant, horrible little feature of this world. Silco doesn't like it, the implication that everything is provided for, that there is little struggle.
He's a man that needs it, the fight, to function. To survive. To thrive. He's lived for spite for so long, that what else could he do? Could he be a man without it?
No, he thinks. This world of the Drzyr was...
Everything he wasn't. Ascending beyond his place, pointedly fighting with everything he had to get away from humble origins to something better. Being punished, and persevering even so. ]
It is inequity. They may have what they need, but what more do they have? Anything? Anything to grow beyond?
[ It doesn't sound like it.
He is also, very pointedly, trying not to start up the... talk. About revolution from such things. It does no good here. ]