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Alpha Interviews - Saber: Reasoning with Men & Wolves (SP-RP17/18)

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"Very well, Saber." Kratos said, "Do you want to stay in this room? Or would you like to come outside?"

Saber's eyes narrowed. " No thanks, I'm comfortable right here," he said.

"Oh, that is good to hear." Kratos said.

Saber's eyes narrowed further. He waited, but the giant of a man seemed content to leave it at that.

Saber tried to continue to wait, but eventually the silence grew awkward. " ...So what? You gunna tell me why you barged in here or not?" He asked.

Kratos waited patiently for Saber to speak again. 'Awkwardness' did not phase him. Time did not appear to matter.

"They tell me you are not eating." Kratos said simply.

Saber rolled his eyes, his gaze drifting to the side. Beyond an irritable sigh, no verbal response was given.

Kratos lowered his chin.

There was something rich about an autumn mid-morning. With a window at each end of the hall, a warm yellow ambiance filled the space behind Kratos' back. It singed the tips of his hair in places and set it aglow, while in other places the true whiteness in his hair and brows appeared. The scrumptious smell of red and golden fall leaves lingered in the air around him, along with the smell of moist earth from the recent rainfall, and the wet pines higher up on the mountain. It was a beautiful autumn morning, and staying inside under a chalk ceiling, with paper walls and metal pipes all around, was certainly not the preference of the alpha. He could smell and feel every bit of the confines which the house presented. On some occasions, walls and roofs were a comfort and necessary, but on this day of all days it was a pithy support to a much more splendid canopy of life.

Kratos said nothing presently, and waited still.

Thoughts turned inward now, silence did not seem to bug Saber this time. His dark eyes were cast low and hard to read.

Sometimes, silence is its own reply. Many meanings swirl beneath the surface of silence. In its depths are questions, provoked thoughts, complicated emotions, detailed philosophies, melancholy observances, and so much more that can truly reveal the mind and measure of a man.  In silence is profundity of human intricacy. One must never be too hasty to break the surface of silence.

Kratos knew many kinds of silence. What he judged of Saber's silence may not be known, but he let it abide. Kratos himself was a man comfortable in silence, even uneasy silence. There was plenty to observe about the room to keep his attention in the meanwhile. He could, for example, smell the plastic and cardboard that contained Saber's crackers. Oh, what a treat, when Bianca's roasted elk and deer was ready and waiting downstairs. Kratos could smell, too, objects that Saber had concealed in his backpack out of sight. He could smell what Saber had been subsisting on in his sweat and breath. He could hear Saber's breathing, and his heart beating softly, both willing to inform him of Saber's strength and ability. He could hear, too, the gurgling of Saber's bowels and feel his hunger intrinsically. Kratos let it be and mentioned none of these things.

At length, Kratos adjusted his weight off one foot and onto the other.
"Saber, I cannot allow you to go hungry." He said softly.

His gaze appearing very distant, in the silence that continued for a time one might wonder if Saber had heard Kratos at all. But something unseen made his heart beat faster.

" ...Hunger makes the beast harder to control, doesn't it?" He asked quietly. But his body seemed to grow tense and his skin pale as if he already knew the answer.

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