i. we don't need no revolution [ You'd hope nobody would be crass enough to mess with a remembrance for the dead.
You'd hope, but Sam is completely unsurprised to see the people with signs hanging at the edge of the gathering. There are all the kinds of slogans he'd expect: HUMANS FOR HUMANS, YOU WOULDN'T CRY FOR YOUR MICROWAVE, and whatnot - but there are a couple he's not quite sure how to parse, and he squints at them, frowning.
To the eyes of anyone around, he looks like he's simply disapproving - which he is - but there's also a very important question to be answered here. ]
(So, is "krutz" like the Concordian equivalent of the f-bomb?)
[ Priorities. ]
ii. i see your lips moving but all i hear is bullshit [ The speeches are actually the biggest reason Sam thought it was worth coming, even if he does also agree with what's happening on a purely emotional level. Honoring the dead is good. But figuring out how to keep Concordia from having to honor more of them? Even better.
So while the absolute sincerity of most of the speakers is a good thing, objectively, it's also kind of a letdown, from the perspective of "important people usually run their mouths at these things and maybe some of them are just trying to talk the talk and divert suspicion." Which might have been kind of a long shot anyway, but if you throw enough things at the wall, eventually one of them has got to stick, and Sam's still trying to come up with more things to throw.
He's been paying attention through all of it - much better attention than you'd expect a fifteen-year-old boy to have for this kind of thing - but it's wearing on him, and by the time Seong-Hye Ngazi is speaking, his posture's starting to slouch and it takes him active effort to keep his eyes on the screen -
- until halfway through her speech, he tenses up, and practically snaps back to attention.
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[ You'd hope nobody would be crass enough to mess with a remembrance for the dead.
You'd hope, but Sam is completely unsurprised to see the people with signs hanging at the edge of the gathering. There are all the kinds of slogans he'd expect: HUMANS FOR HUMANS, YOU WOULDN'T CRY FOR YOUR MICROWAVE, and whatnot - but there are a couple he's not quite sure how to parse, and he squints at them, frowning.
To the eyes of anyone around, he looks like he's simply disapproving - which he is - but there's also a very important question to be answered here. ]
( So, is "krutz" like the Concordian equivalent of the f-bomb? )
[ Priorities. ]
ii. i see your lips moving but all i hear is bullshit
[ The speeches are actually the biggest reason Sam thought it was worth coming, even if he does also agree with what's happening on a purely emotional level. Honoring the dead is good. But figuring out how to keep Concordia from having to honor more of them? Even better.
So while the absolute sincerity of most of the speakers is a good thing, objectively, it's also kind of a letdown, from the perspective of "important people usually run their mouths at these things and maybe some of them are just trying to talk the talk and divert suspicion." Which might have been kind of a long shot anyway, but if you throw enough things at the wall, eventually one of them has got to stick, and Sam's still trying to come up with more things to throw.
He's been paying attention through all of it - much better attention than you'd expect a fifteen-year-old boy to have for this kind of thing - but it's wearing on him, and by the time Seong-Hye Ngazi is speaking, his posture's starting to slouch and it takes him active effort to keep his eyes on the screen -
- until halfway through her speech, he tenses up, and practically snaps back to attention.
He's got a feeling about this one. ]