{Nepha} Meme answers
Nov. 11th, 2008 01:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wayfarers_lodgeSo, a while ago I posted a meme. Decided i'd get around to answering some of the leftover things. Here are previous answers for Rosethorn, Isobel, Mousie and Bright Water.
Culture
She smiles, her eyes lighting up.
"I don't expect you to understand about what our culture is like as a people. We're working on regaining what we lost, slowly, but it's never been entirely gone. When you come to the marae, you know that you're home, no matter what has passed, and that now, things will be better. Toku toa, he toa rangatira. Noku te whenua, o oku tupuna. Kia mau ki to Maoritanga. Remembering these things, and the land from which you came, will never steer you wrong."
Sacrifice
Her smile falters, and she looks serious.
"I didn't... sacrifice is something that must be done, something that hurts. That's why it's a sacrifice. I didn't want to do it, but someone had to, and I was the most fitting. In the end, it cost me everything, and it cost a good many people something, as well- Mal, Thomas, Carden, Tank, Ryan... Sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like if I had let Grinner go in my place, like he wanted. I didn't want to die, but I wanted to go home."
The smile lifts the corners of her mouth again.
"I guess I got what I wanted. And it helped the People. So I guess it was worth it."
Culture
She smiles, her eyes lighting up.
"I don't expect you to understand about what our culture is like as a people. We're working on regaining what we lost, slowly, but it's never been entirely gone. When you come to the marae, you know that you're home, no matter what has passed, and that now, things will be better. Toku toa, he toa rangatira. Noku te whenua, o oku tupuna. Kia mau ki to Maoritanga. Remembering these things, and the land from which you came, will never steer you wrong."
Sacrifice
Her smile falters, and she looks serious.
"I didn't... sacrifice is something that must be done, something that hurts. That's why it's a sacrifice. I didn't want to do it, but someone had to, and I was the most fitting. In the end, it cost me everything, and it cost a good many people something, as well- Mal, Thomas, Carden, Tank, Ryan... Sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like if I had let Grinner go in my place, like he wanted. I didn't want to die, but I wanted to go home."
The smile lifts the corners of her mouth again.
"I guess I got what I wanted. And it helped the People. So I guess it was worth it."
