06-19-2014, 08:03 AM
Armande glanced at his companion. The young man was eloquent; his arguments logical. Armande almost felt a swell of relief. He still didn't trust him, but that was only because he trusted nobody, but the cadence of civilized conversation was soothing.
"The instinct to survive is bred into us all. It is as strong in the creature that made those claw marks as it is in you and I. Remember that, Giovanni, if you ever come face to face with such a thing. It will fight to the last breath."
They moved onward. He kept a close eye on their surroundings, but not only for signs of life and death, but also for architecture that hinted at passageways downward. They were only midway through the levels of the Underground and had a long descent still to reach their destination.
"In the beginning, your assessment of functionality of needs was likely the authority by which life was sustained. But given the passage of time, each subsequent generation will forget what their forefathers had striven for. Once survival is sustained, the petty threats, conflicts, and greed for power will ALWAYS return.
"Your cults were likely to have been about sincere leadership and survival once, but a hundred years later, they are likely to be festering with every Cardinal Sin as what exists on the surface, exponentially worse, down here, an inescapable festering of pressure, a volcano that is near to erupt.
"That is my opinion. If they are not dangerous yet, they will be soon given enough time."
The same could be said of the gods.
"The instinct to survive is bred into us all. It is as strong in the creature that made those claw marks as it is in you and I. Remember that, Giovanni, if you ever come face to face with such a thing. It will fight to the last breath."
They moved onward. He kept a close eye on their surroundings, but not only for signs of life and death, but also for architecture that hinted at passageways downward. They were only midway through the levels of the Underground and had a long descent still to reach their destination.
"In the beginning, your assessment of functionality of needs was likely the authority by which life was sustained. But given the passage of time, each subsequent generation will forget what their forefathers had striven for. Once survival is sustained, the petty threats, conflicts, and greed for power will ALWAYS return.
"Your cults were likely to have been about sincere leadership and survival once, but a hundred years later, they are likely to be festering with every Cardinal Sin as what exists on the surface, exponentially worse, down here, an inescapable festering of pressure, a volcano that is near to erupt.
"That is my opinion. If they are not dangerous yet, they will be soon given enough time."
The same could be said of the gods.