<blockquote><div><cite>Glaive wrote:</cite>(( Reserved for Glaive's Soliloquy / Flashback ))</div></blockquote><br/>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Vagile:</span>"You know...when I took this job this isn't what I had in mind." Vagile said, breaking the silence.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Mentor:</span>"Really? How so?" Arc asked.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Vagile:</span>"Well for one I had expected this to be a solo operation instead of a group effort."<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Mentor:</span>"That's only because it's easier to take down a Beast if you have numbers on your side. The Beast has to be aware of multiple targets instead of just one. It's a whole lot easier for them, for anyone really, to focus on just one individual in a battle. There's nothing to distract you or divide your attention."<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Vagile:</span>"True, but it's a whole lot easier to reach conclusions and solutions when you're solo than deciding as a group. For instance if one wanted to do something he could just do it without waiting to see if the others approve. Plus its less stressful and there's no drama." Vagile retorted.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Mentor:</span>"But these are just the benefits you're looking at. You can't live through life only seeing one side of a coin. The reverse side is just as helpful. For example say you are solo. When you meet your match--" Arc was abruptly cut off.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Vagile:</span>"Heh. Yeah right." Glaive interrupted.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Mentor:</span>"As unlikely as that is." Arc said sarcastically. "If you do meet your match and you are staring death in the face. Who will come to your aid? Or say you are presented a troubling puzzle, a dilemma, as it were. Who will you bounce ideas off of? Who will be there to help guide you in the right direction when you've lost your way? And more importantly. Who will mourn you when you leave this world? Your enemies won't that's for sure. I'm saying this to you not because I don't think you would do well as a solo Beastslayer, but because I don't want you repeating the same mistake I made."<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Vagile:</span>"Gee, that's really touching and everything, but you don't have to worry about me repeating any of your mistakes. Because there's one clear difference between you and I.....I'm not you."<br/>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------