A Bird and A Goon in the desert

[RyderHakubi]

Walking into view of Darx, Ryder slogs himself down the stairs and over to the bar.  He doesn't look very awake right now, as his massive bed-head and the bags under his eyes show.

He sits down, nearly falling over, and waves over Sally...

[Dracos]

Sally heads over. "What do you need?"

Dracos

[RyderHakubi]

"Cappuchino... Plenty of it.... Need caffine... Bad nightmares..."

Ryder replies with a slur in his speech.  Whether or not it's the lack of sleep or any possible hangovers, that's debatable.

[Dracos]

"Sure thing."  She handed him a cup of hot coffee, black.

Dracos

[RyderHakubi]

Ryder slightly blinks at the sight of the black coffee, and then shrugs and starts to gulp it down...

"Thanks Sally... you're the best..." Ryder mutters.

[Dexie Oblivion]

Darx looks up from his meal and glances at Ryder.

"Tired?"

[RyderHakubi]

"Nightmares... Lots of pain and death... couldn't sleep..." Ryder mutters, barely being heard by Mei and Darx.

"Oh, it's you... hi again."

[Dexie Oblivion]

"So that's why you were mumbling in your sleep..."

[RyderHakubi]

"Yeah, it was really, really horrible... and then, I saw myself in these dreams.  And I was laughing... laughing as lives were extinguished.  It took hours to go back to sleep after I woke up..." Ryder muttered, taking himself and the rest of his coffee over to Darx.

[Dexie Oblivion]

"Someone isn't used to killing, I take it. >_>"

[RyderHakubi]

"You're right," Ryder mumbled, "I'm not used to killing."

"But, that's not the scary thing... the scary thing was with the coldness and ruthlessness that I had... and how familiar it felt."

[Dexie Oblivion]

"Hmph. Get a few more kills under your belt and you won't feel a thing, child."

[Carthrat]

"Better you are depressed, than completely remorseless," murmurs Mei-Ling. "If you once were devoid of care, and have regained it, then whatever else you have lost, your spirit profits."

[Dexie Oblivion]

"Remorse makes one weak.  There's no point in regretting the past, it's over and cannot be changed, so why worry?  There's no point in it."

[Carthrat]

"For the past is the foundation of the present, and a guide to what the future holds," replies Mei-Ling. "One who does not regret, who becomes callous, one such as that has no respect for life.

If you must take a life, and you do not reflect on why, then you will not see a way to avoid taking another. And another. And so it becomes easier. Until you begin to forget the reason why you began... and look only to the lives you will take in the future."