Sheena had split her attention between the conversations and the condition of those around her. Many were being treated for their wounds by their comrades, and spotting a familiar face, she Dualcast Zelda's Gift on both Vincent and herself, healing whatever wounds she could and giving them both a boost in the barrier department.
Once done, she turned to Kalki and shook her head.
"You know, you didn't answer my question about being the one who spoke to us in the Rift when the ability to come back after death was taken away. It might have been you, or as an avatar, you could have asked the Calamity itself to speak with us and take that away. And for what? To scare us away from fighting because we don't have that ability anymore?" She laughed. "In case you haven't noticed, it didn't work. We're still fighting, and we're still accepting our own mortality."
Glancing around, she continued. "Yes, we fear death. We fight against it, rail against it, but each one of us knows that Death is a part of Life, and why we live each day the best we can--or the way we want. Which is how it should be. What your proposing takes away that freedom of choice. That freedom of life. Of living." Her eyes narrowed, and she glared at Kalki.
"What you want to do is make a world where people have no soul or heart, where everyone is a Lifeless Being merely existing in a stagnant world, never to appreciate the world that could be just by being alive." She stopped to take a breath.
"To quote a friend, 'Dying is easy. It's living that's hard.' But damn, is that hardship worthwhile. And I chose to fight for that hardship, that work. Can you say the same thing?"
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Once done, she turned to Kalki and shook her head.
"You know, you didn't answer my question about being the one who spoke to us in the Rift when the ability to come back after death was taken away. It might have been you, or as an avatar, you could have asked the Calamity itself to speak with us and take that away. And for what? To scare us away from fighting because we don't have that ability anymore?" She laughed. "In case you haven't noticed, it didn't work. We're still fighting, and we're still accepting our own mortality."
Glancing around, she continued. "Yes, we fear death. We fight against it, rail against it, but each one of us knows that Death is a part of Life, and why we live each day the best we can--or the way we want. Which is how it should be. What your proposing takes away that freedom of choice. That freedom of life. Of living." Her eyes narrowed, and she glared at Kalki.
"What you want to do is make a world where people have no soul or heart, where everyone is a Lifeless Being merely existing in a stagnant world, never to appreciate the world that could be just by being alive." She stopped to take a breath.
"To quote a friend, 'Dying is easy. It's living that's hard.' But damn, is that hardship worthwhile. And I chose to fight for that hardship, that work. Can you say the same thing?"