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Alicia Elsdragon · October 29, 2006, 04:24 PM

"Going with the flow is something that often time means you need a better view of what's ahead than you have. It's the unseen twists and turns that always surprise me" she mused, swirling the wine glass and watching the wine twist around in its confined space "I dont think that its a predetermined thing, but more like a.. a jigsaw I suppose. Or a river that has lots of tributaries. Each person that we meet, each time we encounter a situation, it shapes our future. It has ripples. It alters the flow of the river. I don't know I think maybe I've gotten a little lost in my own analogy here!" she smiled, and shrugged slightly "I suppose what I'm trying to say is that life is a winding road, isn't it?" she smiled and listened to his next words.

At the idea of the portraits Alicia looked at him and frowned slightly "Pala.. it's your office. Take them down, get rid of them. It isn't someone else's place that you're taking care of. It's yours. Get rid of them and replace them with something beautiful. We should all be surrounded by beauty, not glaring portraits of misery. Because you are right, Palacrisis, there are many who would seek to take what power we have from us. But I have a slightly different philosophy to you. Let them try. My actions will stand or they will not. If they do not, then perhaps I should not be in office at all in the first place. So if I need help I will ask, if I do not understand I will say so. Honestly, and here I am talking too much, no doubt due to the combination of good wine, good food and better-than-good company" she smiled slightly but her misty grey eyes were serious "I believe that if we are lonely it is because we allow ourselves to be. We embrace that loneliness because it is a price that we think we must pay for the priviledge that we have been granted. It is self destructive and unnecessary..."

She stopped and looked at him with an expression of concern "Did I mention that I warble too much whenever I am given an opportunity also? Please, forgive me" she said with a soft smile "I have a tendency to speak my mind too quickly... I'm sorry" she flushed, rather embarrassed that she had gone quite so far this time. She looked down at her hands and wondered whether she had offended him greatly.

October 29, 2006, 04:24 PM	#12 (permalink)
Alicia Elsdragon Nothing Left To Lose Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Aelyria Prime Posts: 1,864 Total Awards: 3	"Going with the flow is something that often time means you need a better view of what's ahead than you have. It's the unseen twists and turns that always surprise me" she mused, swirling the wine glass and watching the wine twist around in its confined space "I dont think that its a predetermined thing, but more like a.. a jigsaw I suppose. Or a river that has lots of tributaries. Each person that we meet, each time we encounter a situation, it shapes our future. It has ripples. It alters the flow of the river. I don't know I think maybe I've gotten a little lost in my own analogy here!" she smiled, and shrugged slightly "I suppose what I'm trying to say is that life is a winding road, isn't it?" she smiled and listened to his next words. At the idea of the portraits Alicia looked at him and frowned slightly "Pala.. it's your office. Take them down, get rid of them. It isn't someone else's place that you're taking care of. It's yours. Get rid of them and replace them with something beautiful. We should all be surrounded by beauty, not glaring portraits of misery. Because you are right, Palacrisis, there are many who would seek to take what power we have from us. But I have a slightly different philosophy to you. Let them try. My actions will stand or they will not. If they do not, then perhaps I should not be in office at all in the first place. So if I need help I will ask, if I do not understand I will say so. Honestly, and here I am talking too much, no doubt due to the combination of good wine, good food and better-than-good company" she smiled slightly but her misty grey eyes were serious "I believe that if we are lonely it is because we allow ourselves to be. We embrace that loneliness because it is a price that we think we must pay for the priviledge that we have been granted. It is self destructive and unnecessary..." She stopped and looked at him with an expression of concern "Did I mention that I warble too much whenever I am given an opportunity also? Please, forgive me" she said with a soft smile "I have a tendency to speak my mind too quickly... I'm sorry" she flushed, rather embarrassed that she had gone quite so far this time. She looked down at her hands and wondered whether she had offended him greatly. __________________ "Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first, and the instruction after." CIR ~~~~***~~~~ SoF Current Status: Deeply Cynical "Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose"* Last edited by Alicia Elsdragon; October 29, 2006 at 04:31 PM.