In the ruins

[itbelongsinamuseum]

[After the battle in the Iraqi desert as the bodies had been cleaned up, Alex could be found walking around the dig site. Stopping to look at newly broken statues or just around where the battle had been. It wasn't really a very big site all told, but did that really matter?]

It's weird. This place has been lying quietly for millennia and war returned to it like this...At least it didn't turn into a full-blown massacre.

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[sang_av_helten]

War appears when one least expects it. It is a predator that stalks the footsteps of all beings capable of thought without care of when, where or even why.

[The cat sits next to Alex and looks at one of the statues. He grooms his left paw casually before looking up at Enki's champion.]

Still... we have achieved a victory, and that is what matters isn't it?

[itbelongsinamuseum]

[There was a long pause before Alex finally said something.]

A man died and who knows how many priceless artifacts were destroyed. All for some harebrained scheme to get superweapons to use for national independence of a country that isn't even being oppressed in any way.

[sang_av_helten]

Bah, this scheme is no different from many others like it in history. A group that believes itself to be in the right for a cause of questionable validity choosing to rampage and slaughter and pillage and often ensuring a loss of both life and knowledge.

[Skald continues to groom himself.]

If anything you should be thankful that the loss was that miniscule. Instead of one death and the loss of several trinkets, it could have been many deaths and the absolute erasure of what little remained of the discov- [KAFF] Discover- [HACK] discover- [HAAAACK]

[The cat proceeded to hack up a hairball. He then proceeded to let out a polite cough before batting it aside to allow the winds of the dig site deal with it like some sort of disgusting tumbleweed.]

... of the discovery.

[itbelongsinamuseum]

Yes, things could be worse. That doesn't mean you can't be affected by how they are.