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Kronos, three drabbles.
Apr. 21st, 2006 10:38 amGooglisms challenge #91 for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
highlander100:
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Kronos is a product of his time and his race; ruthlessness and obsession to a single goal -one life, one vision -and extreme carelessness to mortal lives. And why not? For thousands of years men like him were the law. Our rules are so new, so recent, why must they apply? His loyalty to his smallest of small tribes, his insistence on asserting his leadership through pain and terror, rape and murder, those were the ways of the world since there was a world. How dare we inflict our fleeting, temporary, infant set of values on a man this ancient?
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Kronos is a multiwavelength observatory. He watches people to see how they behave, what move they'll make next, what makes them tick. What makes them scream. What makes them die. He's seen society change through the ages, and mapped in his head the things that remained the same. Human nature. The existence of evil. He has the benefit of age and brains to assist him in his studies, and the sharpness brought about by a complete lack of human empathy. He catalogues pain, but doesn't feel it for others. Just lets it become knowledge to be used a next time.
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Kronos is designed to answer these questions of man and time, the search for meaning in a painful, indifferent world. Why do bad things happen, mommy? Why must good men die? It's the monster under the bed, it's the dark man with the cold thrilling eyes, it's the Gods, my child, she says. It's the Horseman riding in the night. He brings fire, he brings death. He brings plagues and droughts and stillborns. Someone must be blamed. Someone must be so terrifying, so unlike *us*, that we can sleep better at night knowing he's out there -and we're in here.
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Three observations; Mary the Mod said it counts. 100 words each, all to Kronos.
highlander100:----------
Kronos is a product of his time and his race; ruthlessness and obsession to a single goal -one life, one vision -and extreme carelessness to mortal lives. And why not? For thousands of years men like him were the law. Our rules are so new, so recent, why must they apply? His loyalty to his smallest of small tribes, his insistence on asserting his leadership through pain and terror, rape and murder, those were the ways of the world since there was a world. How dare we inflict our fleeting, temporary, infant set of values on a man this ancient?
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Kronos is a multiwavelength observatory. He watches people to see how they behave, what move they'll make next, what makes them tick. What makes them scream. What makes them die. He's seen society change through the ages, and mapped in his head the things that remained the same. Human nature. The existence of evil. He has the benefit of age and brains to assist him in his studies, and the sharpness brought about by a complete lack of human empathy. He catalogues pain, but doesn't feel it for others. Just lets it become knowledge to be used a next time.
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Kronos is designed to answer these questions of man and time, the search for meaning in a painful, indifferent world. Why do bad things happen, mommy? Why must good men die? It's the monster under the bed, it's the dark man with the cold thrilling eyes, it's the Gods, my child, she says. It's the Horseman riding in the night. He brings fire, he brings death. He brings plagues and droughts and stillborns. Someone must be blamed. Someone must be so terrifying, so unlike *us*, that we can sleep better at night knowing he's out there -and we're in here.
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Three observations; Mary the Mod said it counts. 100 words each, all to Kronos.
