[ Honestly? Getting pedantic over definitions is the dumbest thing to get upset about, let alone take pot shots over. Okay. Well. Positives. The conversation at least confirmed she needs to extend her meditations in the morning. Both eyes close, letting pain and thoughts drift past in equal neutrality; leaves floating downstream.
Lion continues to beat the dead donkey, punctuated by clanking steps - advancing, not leaving. Servos grinding against each other as a presence settles at her left. She's staying? Odd. Probably just concerned. The injuries are still horrible to those unused to them, so it makes sense. And - thoughts still at that last sensation. Definitely concerned. But about something different. A secret for Niina alone; a finger knocks against the palm of her hand in two precise beats. It's okay.
There's no attempt to sit up again, but when the hypothetical question ends is when the head lifts. Still looks like a corpse, but the smile is excited in all the worst ways. ]
To idle one's Life away.
[ The four syllables of the idiom are still said with the same poetic rhythm, but rather than the slight lift of emphasis being placed on the second word - sei, life - it's placed on the fourth. Shi, death. Effectively, it is a horrible suicide pun that roughs out to "Why push something that's already dead?" "To push yourself to death" and it's using extremely archaic phrases as the medium.
It's okay. The narrative hates explaining it as much as you just hated reading it. Suffer. ]
cw: terrible puns in hovertext
Lion continues to beat the dead donkey, punctuated by clanking steps - advancing, not leaving. Servos grinding against each other as a presence settles at her left. She's staying? Odd. Probably just concerned. The injuries are still horrible to those unused to them, so it makes sense. And - thoughts still at that last sensation. Definitely concerned. But about something different. A secret for Niina alone; a finger knocks against the palm of her hand in two precise beats. It's okay.
There's no attempt to sit up again, but when the hypothetical question ends is when the head lifts. Still looks like a corpse, but the smile is excited in all the worst ways. ]
To idle one's Life away.
[ The four syllables of the idiom are still said with the same poetic rhythm, but rather than the slight lift of emphasis being placed on the second word - sei, life - it's placed on the fourth. Shi, death. Effectively, it is a horrible suicide pun that roughs out to "Why push something that's already dead?" "To push yourself to death" and it's using extremely archaic phrases as the medium.
It's okay. The narrative hates explaining it as much as you just hated reading it. Suffer. ]