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Posted by Sarge on 9/10/2008, 1:12 am, in reply to "-sorrow-"
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She loved him.
This was supposed to be a simple answer to his query, but Sarge knew that, in fact, it was likely the most complicated statement she had yet made. She loved him...he had destroyed her family and broken her heart...yet somehow she had continued to be with him, even after suffering such pain and betrayal. He wondered how she could do such...and yet understood it all the same.
As Redd continued to explain, Sarge could not help but see the vague irony in her tale. Indeed, the very story she told seemed likely to be the one he might hear from her lover, were he talking to him instead. Change the names, but the story was the same. From what she had told, Toric loved his brother, and is willing to risk him turning against him again to be with him. Lestat hurt Toric's children, and hurt Toric...much as Toric had done to Redd.
This was not to say Sarge thought to condone Toric's opinion on bringing Lestat back to the pack, for he thought the individual sounded dangerous. Yet he also thought the same of Toric, for any creature who would slaughter his own offspring certainly must be considered so...even if the wolf before him felt differently.
But none of these thoughts on the matter would be uttered for Redd's ears, for the matters of her pack and family were not his. He wanted to help her, yes, but not by interjecting his own moral judgements regarding her chosen lover.
Instead, he simply shook his head at her question. "No, ma'am, not a fool." He said, and sincerely meant it...at least with regards to her being pleased to have Toric return to her, though perhaps not so much with regards to her having taken her lover back after the death of her young.
"But I could not help but notice your use of the past tense. You said you loved Toric, but do you love him? And why?" His soft tenor voice was calm as he asked the question, though he knew that he very well might be pressing the limits of what was proper to ask. Still, Redd, though stating her feelings, had not mentionned a single redeeming feature of her collie lover. He had murdered his own children, wounded his lover, and from the sounds of it, often strayed out on his own. What was there to love in that?
Of course, his question also made a flawed assumption...that love was logical. Even Sarge knew it was not, but perhaps by forcing her to consider redeeming qualities in her choosen partner, the wolf would also examine her own place in his life.
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