[And Akande draws himself to his full height, voice hardening. Like an icy glacier, pressing its weight down on the entire courtroom-]
We are thousands of years beyond any of our rightful times. And in that time, humanity has risen, fallen, and risen again. Without any of us to shape it.
[There's something in his voice there. Something - not quite pained, not quite angry. Frustrated, maybe, that he wasn't there as he feels he should have been?]
If you, or anyone else thinks 'going home' is a great goal - all you have to do is realize that you have already been forgotten. Your friends, your family, all of them mean nothing.
Your homes are already destroyed. There is no saving them. Not through his [and he throws a hand towards Blaze] machinations, not through some assumption of going back and changing things-
You dare assume you are anything but an insignificant speck? That your race means anything? [He snorts, completely unamused.] Then you are a greater fool than I could have imagined.
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[And Akande draws himself to his full height, voice hardening. Like an icy glacier, pressing its weight down on the entire courtroom-]
We are thousands of years beyond any of our rightful times. And in that time, humanity has risen, fallen, and risen again. Without any of us to shape it.
[There's something in his voice there. Something - not quite pained, not quite angry. Frustrated, maybe, that he wasn't there as he feels he should have been?]
If you, or anyone else thinks 'going home' is a great goal - all you have to do is realize that you have already been forgotten. Your friends, your family, all of them mean nothing.
Your homes are already destroyed. There is no saving them. Not through his [and he throws a hand towards Blaze] machinations, not through some assumption of going back and changing things-
You dare assume you are anything but an insignificant speck? That your race means anything? [He snorts, completely unamused.] Then you are a greater fool than I could have imagined.