[ Footfalls slowing to a stop, Sion gives pause, golden eyes searching the Enforcer's face, and finding only honesty; a reserved manner of integrity which would earned the Director's trust if it had not been won long before, in the moment when Julius had extended him a handkerchief.
Always, Sion has worn his heart upon his sleeve: he is a man comprised of regret and hope, of faith and sufferance, of light and dark, and perhaps that is why—even if he is no longer innocent, guilty of violating his own morals time and time again for the sake of protecting those most in need of a champion—he is able to speak with such effortless conviction.
(With a smile so very human in its flickers of sadness, bereavement, and belief that the world is so much more than this.) ]
With the way power is currently distributed in the Quad, nothing will change; the hearts of the people will suppress it, for they themselves have been suppressed for so very long.
[ "You're rather kind, aren't you? I have no interest in things like other people's hearts, on the other hand." ]
To change that... we need a light of hope. Even if it is only a rumor, the people simply need to believe salvation exists, for there to be a light of hope.
[ Silver lashes hooding over gold, the Director seems pensive for a moment, perhaps two, before arriving at a conclusion so seamless, so effortless, so natural that it seems impossible to deny: ]
no subject
[ Footfalls slowing to a stop, Sion gives pause, golden eyes searching the Enforcer's face, and finding only honesty; a reserved manner of integrity which would earned the Director's trust if it had not been won long before, in the moment when Julius had extended him a handkerchief.
Always, Sion has worn his heart upon his sleeve: he is a man comprised of regret and hope, of faith and sufferance, of light and dark, and perhaps that is why—even if he is no longer innocent, guilty of violating his own morals time and time again for the sake of protecting those most in need of a champion—he is able to speak with such effortless conviction.
(With a smile so very human in its flickers of sadness, bereavement, and belief that the world is so much more than this.) ]
With the way power is currently distributed in the Quad, nothing will change; the hearts of the people will suppress it, for they themselves have been suppressed for so very long.
[ "You're rather kind, aren't you? I have no interest in things like other people's hearts, on the other hand." ]
To change that... we need a light of hope. Even if it is only a rumor, the people simply need to believe salvation exists, for there to be a light of hope.
[ Silver lashes hooding over gold, the Director seems pensive for a moment, perhaps two, before arriving at a conclusion so seamless, so effortless, so natural that it seems impossible to deny: ]
In you, I see that light, Julius.