audio/action Sad China is Sad

[gochuugoku]

[There's sounds of China playing his bamboo flute. No specific song, just a couple of notes. However, some of the notes begin to fail. There's a tremble in them until they come out as nothing more than a raspy sound. Unseen by others, China takes his flute away from his lips.]

I never got to tell her what I wanted I say.

[If anyone wants to run into him, he's sitting on a tree branch within Discedo's Horizon Park.]

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[gochuugoku]

I don't mind if you keep me company.

[He offers her a sad smile.]

[paprikaholic]

I'll stay then. Are you holding up okay?

[gochuugoku]

I believe so, after all this is not the first time I've suffered like this. Though, this was the first time I found someone who could outlive me, maybe even all the other Nations too, aru.

[paprikaholic]

Oh? You mean Stocking wasn't human?

[gochuugoku]

She was an angel, literally. She had white wings like the ones in those Christian paintings that depict angels.

[paprikaholic]

That's....incredible. A relationship with someone like that would be wonderful. No concerns of one of you outliving the other in the immediate future, but no need to worry about politics keeping you apart, either...

It's a shame she left. I'm sorry.

[gochuugoku]

No need for you to apologize, it was not your fault, after all.

I do appreciate your condolences, though, really I do. [He smiles slightly.]

Who knows, maybe one of these days she will return, aru.

[paprikaholic]

Hopefully. I'm sure she misses you, too.

[gochuugoku]

Yes... [He carefully climbs down soon afterward to join her on the ground.]

[paprikaholic]

[She smiles a little]

...When I was separated from Austria, it helped me to just remember the time we had together. I tried to find recordings of music a lot when I was forced to live with Russia, though of course I had to hide anything I found.

[She looks a bit sad; even though she's since fallen for Greece, those memories of her ex-husband are still very dear to her and part of her will always miss what they had.]

...But anyway. I guess my point is to never let the pain of losing her cloud your happy memories with her. If that makes sense.

[gochuugoku]

That makes sense, aru. [He smiles softly.] I try to do the same with my memories of my family.

[paprikaholic]

[She smiles as well.]

It must be nice in a way, having such a big family.

[gochuugoku]

It's not easy, but everything has its--"ups and downs"?--is that how they say it?

[paprikaholic]

Sounds about right.

[gochuugoku]

Ah, English is such a strange language, aru. But nowadays, you cannot really get through the world without knowing it.

[paprikaholic]

Yeah. I just hope my people never forget our language. I hate that it even has to be a concern, but with us smaller countries...

[gochuugoku]

[He doesn't really know what to say, especially since he was such a big country and his language was another one that was used world-wide.]

I'm sure that as long as your people are loyal to their origin and their culture, your language will survive.

[paprikaholic]

Hungarians are stubborn. I doubt if they're ever going to let our language disappear. But it's still something I worry about from time to time, when I notice how many of my neighbors are slowly using languages like Russian or German more and more than their own.