"- Good morning Dominica.
- Good morning Danadriel! did you slept well?
- well no, I only sleep every 3 days, today was not nap day.
- Oh, your biology is full of surprises!
- Yeah...look I don't want to interrupt your leisure time, but you are the smartest person I ever met, and I have a question burning in the back of my mind the entire night...
- Oh, what you curious about?
- Dominica...can you explain me exactly what is this feeling of "Love" people keep mentioning? this concept is strange to me...
- Alright I was not expecting it...I mean love is the kind of thing everyone knows instinctively even if they cant explain it in words, and it is a concept with many levels, theres many ways you can love someone or even something...didn't you learned anything about it before becoming a bulwark?
- Before? what you mean?
- I mean before they made you into a bulwark, didn't you had a childhood? a family?... parents to show you love?
- Oh! there was no before, all bulwarks are vat grown and we born as adults, I came out from the tube exactly as you see here..well minus the busted eye.
- That's horrible! I can't imagine the feeling of not having a childhood and natural development...I feel for you Danadriel...
- During our growth they fill our mind with training data and combat knowledge and the basics of survival...but they dont teach anything about life in society...I see and I feel things I dont understand, and I never found someone that can help me.
- I'm more than glad to help you understand societal workings if you need to...even if I'm a bit of a loner and disconnected from said society.
- Oh really!? I will do my best to not be annoying.
- Alright hahaha, but tell me first, why this question? what brought you this sudden curiosity about love?
- I heard you and your father arguing in the upper deck last night, in one moment he was saying how much he loves you and how much he loves your step mother.
- oh...you heard that...
- I didn't mean to, but my hearing is very powerful.
- I was hoping no one on the crew was hearing our argues but its fine,well I would define love as a feeling of caring for someone, love is when the well being of another person is important for you, you enjoy the presence and the very existence of that person, as I said before, you can love in many layers, love as a friend, love as a pet, love as a romantic partner....
- Oh and where this love come from?
- Well it may come from sanguine relations, like parents and their children, brothers and sisters, or just from people socializing with one another and liking each other forging friendships, its a feeling that grows.
- Oh so many things make sense now...when I saw people going out of their way to save others...they forfeit their own survival for others...it was because they loved those people...they were important to eachother.
- yes, it can be also just a product of basic decency to help people in need but, when people love each other they may do unthinkable acts to help their loved ones.
- I feel horrible right now...
- Why?
- Back in my time serving the Calderian Empire, for countless times we were tasked with wiping out settlements completely, a squad of bulwarks would go in and slaughter every single man woman and child on the place...in these many missions I witnesses so many suicidal and irrational acts, of people trying to save eachother, like young folk trying to drag crippled elderly to safety, or mothers trhowing themselves in the front of their offspring to protect them...I always ignored this as defective behavior and stupidity...I never imagined those people could feel things for eachother...
- Well...that's a hard revelation to stomach right in the morning, but I had a gut feeling of it anyway, the imperial bulwarks did horrible things and you are no exception...but you are a new person trying to reddem yourself and thats what matters...
- Yes...this is why I wanna understand how people work, so I can be a better person myself...
- Thats contrastingly adorable...
- I assume this is a good thing.
- Yes it is...now knowing what is the feeling of love, did you ever felt it for anyone?
- No, I don't think so, perhaps I'm hardwired to never feel it.
- Really? not even for other bulwarks of your squadron? you never had feel of friendship and camaraderie?
- No, we never cared for each other's existence as long the mission was accomplished, I witnessed the death of dozens of members of my squad through the years and never felt anything...it was like losing a vehicle or a gun, just a number.
- Horrifying...did you ever felt lonely because of that?
- Now that understand loneliness, yes I was surrounded by an army yet I was completely alone, it was just me and my thoughts...
- I imagine things got a little better now that you are here in the order, I mean here people care for each other and are quite vocal about all sorts of things.
- I have to say your companions are indeed quite loud and have something interesting to say about a lot of things, I'm still getting used to it.
- You will get used to it soon, we may have a constant conflict of strong personalities, but its vital for our kind of mission.
- I imagine, regardless, I will keep to myself, I dont want to be a burden to the mission.
- I understand your reserved way to act, but don't be shy to try to bond to anyone, its part of the fun of traveling together!
- I will follow your recommendation...eventually,regardless, thanks for the help Dominica, now I will go back to the armoury.
- No need to thank me! but hey don't you wanna sit down and share some smoke? there is a beautiful sunrise to watch and we will only land around noon, there's plenty of time to prepare the guns.
- Oh...I mean never had leisure time on the job before.
- You not in the empire anymore,just because you live in the same place you work doesn't mean you have to work all the time, sit down and chill out!
- oh, alright!"
its a story about supernatural detectives saving the world from magical dangers...and I'm writing slice of life about it again, what is my fucking problem!? XD
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