Considering the attitudes and various personas present here, Jing Yuan sees nothing wrong with pointing it out. ]
Haha, you must be certainly and obviously speaking from experience.
A pity I hadn't brought a drink, however. We could make a toast..."to us being able to make the most of the opportunities and choices before us so that we are able to emerge from this all with having made no regrets".
[ His eyes crease in amusement because he does still believe the opportunity to making those still exist (he is not counting past ones), but hey. ]
[He doesn't believe the opportunity has passed either. Not yet. Not for everything. But time was not a luxury here.
The silence sits for a beat, before Solomon lets out a huff, clapping his hands against his knees and rising to his feet]
Well! That's enough of the more dreary conversation. I see you brought your chess board. What do you say we engage our minds in a different way for now?
Ah, you can stay where you're seated. Hold on a moment. [Have you ever seen a side table levitate from halfway across the room? Here it comes, settling between them.]
Jing Yuan's smile seems to more or less indicate that, always light at the edges, but genuinely glad. ]
Yes, let us do so. I was hoping it would be able to get put to use. Though, I do hope you will, as always, prove to be a challenge.
[ He says this calmly, and there is something like undeniable delight in his tone (he is always excited to play), and then amusement colors over his face as he watches the side table levitate until it reaches its point. He reaches for what he placed the chessboard down, and places it right atop the side-table. ]
[A laugh ripples from him, soft and ringing, like bells on the wind.]
Letting me have the first move with white? Sure, I'll take it.
[Pawns across a board without motive, without identity, outside their players' whims and the ultimate end goal. It's a mindset one could easily fall into, uncaring and calculated.
What a good enough reason, he thinks, to remember exactly what he is.
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Considering the attitudes and various personas present here, Jing Yuan sees nothing wrong with pointing it out. ]
Haha, you must be certainly and obviously speaking from experience.
A pity I hadn't brought a drink, however. We could make a toast..."to us being able to make the most of the opportunities and choices before us so that we are able to emerge from this all with having made no regrets".
[ His eyes crease in amusement because he does still believe the opportunity to making those still exist (he is not counting past ones), but hey. ]
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[He doesn't believe the opportunity has passed either. Not yet. Not for everything. But time was not a luxury here.
The silence sits for a beat, before Solomon lets out a huff, clapping his hands against his knees and rising to his feet]
Well! That's enough of the more dreary conversation. I see you brought your chess board. What do you say we engage our minds in a different way for now?
Ah, you can stay where you're seated. Hold on a moment. [Have you ever seen a side table levitate from halfway across the room? Here it comes, settling between them.]
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Jing Yuan's smile seems to more or less indicate that, always light at the edges, but genuinely glad. ]
Yes, let us do so. I was hoping it would be able to get put to use. Though, I do hope you will, as always, prove to be a challenge.
[ He says this calmly, and there is something like undeniable delight in his tone (he is always excited to play), and then amusement colors over his face as he watches the side table levitate until it reaches its point. He reaches for what he placed the chessboard down, and places it right atop the side-table. ]
I will choose black. Yourself, Solomon?
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Letting me have the first move with white? Sure, I'll take it.
[Pawns across a board without motive, without identity, outside their players' whims and the ultimate end goal. It's a mindset one could easily fall into, uncaring and calculated.
What a good enough reason, he thinks, to remember exactly what he is.
Right?]