- Karna and Topaz (C)
Karna: Hello Miss Topaz. Out about late, as usual.
Topaz: Likewise.
Karna: So... anything keeping you up this late?
Topaz: Professor, I've been thinking... as a person of a different cloth compared to here, I must ask... what is its view of death?
Karna: Pardon? You're asking me?
Topaz: For someone who has danced with death on a daily basis due to his calamitous misfortune, yes. I am very, very interested.
Karna: ... I'm not just a black cat bringing forth chaos wherever I go, Miss Topaz.
*looks around, finds nothing of sort to make sure that he isn't jinxing it*
Karna: ... Yes. I am more than my own misfortune and people who are out for my head.
Topaz: Yet, the shadow still follows... What makes you resist so dearly?
Karna: Does being able to die any day now a deterrent to live my life to the fullest?
Topaz: I find that... paradoxical.
Karna: How so? How is living to the fullest paradoxical of in itself?
Topaz: My religion states that the goal of all life is death. No matter how many misfortunes come our way, no matter how many works towering to the skies above we may erect, everything is destined to erode and fade away into oblivion. The only solace is that we can live with one truth: that all life in this world dies. Whether through sickness, old age, accidents or at the hands of someone else. To resist is folly. To run away is denial. Yet here, all I see is denial after denial, thinking that some invisible maiden would make any difference in the end.
Karna: Your religion doesn't have a deity of worship?
Topaz: Even the so-called "gods" die with their so-called "religion." Anything fabricated in the hands of mortals are fated to fade away in due time.
*Topaz looks back, finds a black cat meowing as it tipped over a flower pot and shatters it onto the ground*
Topaz: That right there? That is life. It comes and goes and we have no say when or how. The only right we have is to accept it when it comes.