[Typically, Ashitaka would be wary as well; all that he has seen of armies is destruction of property and devastation of its inhabitants. But how much choice did they have? They had no power in this. They didn't even have the ability to desert, if they were so inclined. COST controlled their positioning in space-time, and therefore it controlled them.
To trust them enough to at the very least tune out the Regency's claims felt like a method of self-preservation to him.]
In the end we are limited by our lack of an ability to control where it is we go and what we do. As long as this is true, it seems to me sound to trust COST until they give us a reason to cease doing so.
[There is a brief pause, one filled with the crackling of the fire. Ashitaka soon looks up to 76 with a slightly apologetic smile on his face.]
But it has gotten late, and I fear I have kept you. Perhaps we should rest so we might continue onward in the morning.
[Or whatever went for "morning" out here, where time didn't really seem to mean much of anything.]
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To trust them enough to at the very least tune out the Regency's claims felt like a method of self-preservation to him.]
In the end we are limited by our lack of an ability to control where it is we go and what we do. As long as this is true, it seems to me sound to trust COST until they give us a reason to cease doing so.
[There is a brief pause, one filled with the crackling of the fire. Ashitaka soon looks up to 76 with a slightly apologetic smile on his face.]
But it has gotten late, and I fear I have kept you. Perhaps we should rest so we might continue onward in the morning.
[Or whatever went for "morning" out here, where time didn't really seem to mean much of anything.]