Serpent's Secrets

War and Evil - Chapter 12

"Morning!"

"And what a fine morning it is, our new parlour is busy, the birds are singing and everyone needs us to make ice cream!" He replied as I kissed him on the cheek,

"Aaah! I see how it is, don't you to love birds mind me, doing work and making enough ice cream to feed all those craving customers!" Berto grinned, chuckling to himself as I popped on my hairnet.

So what thoughts do you have about the war? I thought at Talio,

I think it's wrong. While we get on with our work and keep quiet about my secret, millions of people are in a kill or be killed situation, It's not fair.

I know honey, but there's nothing we can do, until the government ask for help, through some sort of charity scheme or something...

I could join up.

Berto left the room to serve, as I stopped in my tracks.

"No, no you couldn't! It's not safe or rational, or sane in any way, you could be killed!" I shouted at him, "And..." I lowered my voice, but kept it equally harsh, "and, what if you got angry, great big snake attack coming from your glowing green body might be a bit suspicious!"

Then he laughed. How could he laugh when that conversation had just happened?

"Your selfishness is stubborn."

"WHAT?"

"You hear and see of people suffering every day, I can stop that. And you keep me here for your own sake."

"Not for MINE, for YOURS." Then he replied with some other load of shit that I couldn't hear over the sound of me throttling the ice cream bucket.

I said, you're right. You need me and I need you. You can stop me losing my temper and I stop you from going insane.

Finally, some sense.

That's why you should sign up too.

I looked at him more surprised and appalled than I have ever been before. I kept my mouth shut and my thoughts concentrated on the serving of the ice cream. I added melted chocolate and a cherry from the tree at Berto's house. Then I walked out into the parlour.

At least contemplate it.

He's still in my head!

Yes I am.

There's table twenty-two..

Come on, we can sort all this mess out, make peace with the world!

"Here is your vanilla grande with banana ripple and strawberry chunks, covered in warm chocolate and topped with a cherry."

"Thank you."

"Thank you, enjoy!" I marched back to the kitchen.

So.....

So stay out of my head.

I do and will respect that.

Should I? I'm not fit enough, and I'll never get through if I'm not fully passionate. What's happening to those people isn't fair and never will be. At the same time war isn't something I should be encouraging by joining in. War is based on majority, tactics and skill, so the more people that are skilful and have good tactics join, the more war there is. I'm not skilful, but I could be, and my tactics are ok. So based on that reasoning. My reasoning. I mustn't.

However, the side with the largest majority, tactics and skill will most probably win, stamping out the evil they sought to stop. But there are peaceful ways of doing this, they don't just turn guns on each other in the house of commons and expect everything to be sorted out. War is a no no.

So through two types of reasoning I have found that me joining the army is bad.

Only one person will barely change the overall statistics, but at the same time, every little helps, and we could be rid of the suffering, and defend the rest of the world against those terrorists. I could help with that, that monumental effort, the effort to win. But is winning all that matters? Of course not.

So it's two against one, if one even counts as one. Unless Talio comes up with something monumentally impressive, persuasive, and morally right, I am not being shifted from my choice to remain a civilian.

Sounds like a challenge.