I stand by my last statement in the chapter prior to this one!
29: Existence
Cogito ergo sum, I think, therefore I am. That had always been a rule of life for Roy Mustang. If he didn't think, he didn't exist, so he always thought on every little thing that passed him by in his life, hoping to also give that thing some meaning as a reaction. His aunt had encouraged this thought, often prompting him to tell her what he'd thought about something particular and prompting him to think on many things he may not have noticed.
Then he met Riza Hawkeye. She seemed to deny thinking of something as often as possible and would gladly accept anything at face value if she could get away with it. She frustrated him more than he cared to admit, for he could see intelligence lurk in the corner of her eyes and in the almost cynical tilt of her lips on the rare occasion when she smiled and in the offhanded, sarcasm-laden comments she would throw at him with a sneer to her tone whenever he had bungled some information.
Yet she refused to think. Think long and hard on a subject like he did. She would take her initial opinion and stick with it until something happened to disprove her thought, when she'd just shrug and accept it.
He had snapped at her once, much to her amusement if he had seen the glimmer of a smile right, ending by asking her how she managed to exist with so little thought.
She had looked pensively at something over his shoulder, rocking back and forth on the balls of her feet. Then she had smiled brightly and leant forward conspiratorially. "Sentio ergo sum," she had told him in a soft voice, then skipped out of the room as if it was perfectly normal behaviour for her.
"Sentio… You speak Latin?" he had called after her. "Wait… You feel?" He had whispered that, in part because she likely wouldn't have taken it very nicely and in part because she was out of hearing by then. He had then set to mull over what she had said… And came to the conclusion that her view was as good as his.
'Sentio ergo sum'=I feel, therefore I am. Please review and tell me what liked/disliked. ^_^
