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.]

Comments

[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.