[color=Silver][B][I]Archibald Andrews - Sapper[/i][/b][/color]

[Color=#c0c0c0]"I apologize,"[/color] Archibald said upon hearing Mimi/Mila's words about how she did not want to be seen as a tormentor. [Color=#c0c0c0]"I didn't know."[/color] 

Time to mull this over. Was he being a hypocrite who was living out a fantasy of being a compassionate person while not being one at heart? Was he someone who had failed to live up to the faith he was touting? But at the same time, he cannot just let Mila's arguments slide. So he said,[Color=#c0c0c0]"Sometimes, the paper-thin difference between rational and rabid is all we have, all that keeps us sane. Love and Hope, Faith and Peace, we keep dreaming of them, lies or not, because if we don't strive for them, we [i]are[/i] animals."[/color] 

He breathed out, [Color=#c0c0c0]"We're all murderers, but without the game of pretend, we're nothing."[/color] Another pause. [Color=#c0c0c0]"But I don't want us to fight; I don't want to be your enemy or the enemy of anyone else here. I want everyone to be loved, even if everything won't be all right. And I am stumbling over how to make it so."[/color] 

The Sapper knew he may have angered Mila/Mimi further. He knew he might have said inane words. But what else could he have had to say? What other words could he have spoken?

[i]You could have let go and not spoken at all,[/i] his mind spoke.

[i]It is not in my nature,[/i] his heart replied.