11-30-2007, 05:23 PM
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indent The mind replayed images, being a thing that learned to mimic what it is told it sees. From there, it fills in blanks—often creating images from things imprinted. So his father became a monster, drawn up from the memory of their fight (the last time Ahren had seen the man) and the fights that had occurred in the times since that day. “Maybe,” he responded, shrugging lightly. “I think we’re afraid of what we could or have done. The darker park of ourselves, if you split yourself like that.”
indent His tongue moved behind his teeth and he found himself biting lightly on the barbell again. As he opened his mouth to speak again, the tongue ring flashed in the light. “Fear is an instinct though. The brain doesn’t want the body to get hurt.” That was how most fears evolved, at least how Ahren reasoned it.
indent The mind replayed images, being a thing that learned to mimic what it is told it sees. From there, it fills in blanks—often creating images from things imprinted. So his father became a monster, drawn up from the memory of their fight (the last time Ahren had seen the man) and the fights that had occurred in the times since that day. “Maybe,” he responded, shrugging lightly. “I think we’re afraid of what we could or have done. The darker park of ourselves, if you split yourself like that.”
indent His tongue moved behind his teeth and he found himself biting lightly on the barbell again. As he opened his mouth to speak again, the tongue ring flashed in the light. “Fear is an instinct though. The brain doesn’t want the body to get hurt.” That was how most fears evolved, at least how Ahren reasoned it.