[good luck with that growth spurt in a place where nobody grows, Armin]
Maybe when I was very young. As a small kid ya don't really judge situations all that well. [and by very young he means a human age of somewhere around four or five.]
I can control how long I allow people and myself ta stay close, right?
It's not that bad, I have a lot of great citizens, and I can never meet all of them in a liftime, so not being able ta stay with any of them fer long will just mean that I'll meet more. [of course there are negative side too, but he will concentrate on the positive ones]
[Armin's pretty impressed with that positive outlook and he nods. He's certainly not going to point out the downsides for Denmark.] I suppose that's nice! Can you remember them all, though?
it gets fuzzy after a while. There's some people that stick, but... ya know how history gets more and more vague the further back in time ya go because the tradition gets tweaked by time and every traditor hands down a bit less than the one before? Memory does the same thing. And then there's so many that sometimes ya aren't sure anymore if ya mix people up. But some stay in yer memory very clearly because they were somehow more important ta ya. Fer good or bad reasons. Often both.
[Armin considers this, but it's not something he's heard of before. So much history was lost when they retreated behind the walls that it's hard to imagine the wealth of history that Denmark's world must have and how it would decay over time. It makes sense, though, and he slowly nods.]. I suppose human memory works the same way; you recall important things and other things fade. So many memories though! And so many people too.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Maybe when I was very young. As a small kid ya don't really judge situations all that well. [and by very young he means a human age of somewhere around four or five.]
no subject
He nods to the idea of children not judging things well, remembering the fights he used to get involved in.] So you can control it, then?
no subject
It's not that bad, I have a lot of great citizens, and I can never meet all of them in a liftime, so not being able ta stay with any of them fer long will just mean that I'll meet more. [of course there are negative side too, but he will concentrate on the positive ones]
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
Do you have responsibilities for your country too? And your people?