Re: Flextime Thread: Lumbering along the road to Lunk
Lissa smiled slightly, though it was a rather distant, distracted affair. "Well," she ventured after a momentary pause, "if one of us were to falter - then the other needs to help them back up." Her slight frame shuddered slightly as she took in a deep breath. "No one intends to fail." the blonde scholar noted idly, but her tone conceding that intention and results were not always in alignment.
"But" Lissabytta noted sans any rancor, "as with any hypothetical situation, the details matter... how far, what is involved ... when, where... " and she ticked off various random factors, "... who... " The erudite musketeer stopped herself and refocused her attention, "Yet, it is no different than this very moment. How do we know that there isn't already someone else that had faltered and that we are fighting for our lives, Bunny? Or at least we should be..." She didn't seem to be dismissing Bunny's question, but merely noting that the choice to run or fight - that something greater than all of them was coming to destroy them - was a potential threat at all times.
"Look, I... I don't really care for the 'no win situation' ..." she mused, but her tone conceded that both she'd obviously thought about it and that it was a real possibility in the wide world, "and I would say that survival is always preferable. It allows one to fight another day." Lissa turned to face her companion briefly, "There isn't any shame in turning tail when necessary. Dying foolishly, without reason or cause when you have the choice is more of a shame to me ..." And Lissabytta hedged her bets, she appeared to like to leave her options open.
She turned to look up the road again, "But, you don't always get the choice." And there was that little shrug again.