"Haven't you both rested yet? I'm going to have a whisky. You're welcome. How about that? " Arthur was wearing a dark blue plaid pajamas. He went through the dim light leaking from the crack of the study door. He looked in and saw blue Li sitting on the sofa and Edith standing at the door. He didn't know what happened, but he knew that he was not the only one who couldn't sleep tonight.
Edith raised her right hand. "I sign up."
Feeling Arthur and Edith's gaze, Langley nodded, "give me a drink."
Arthur cheered.
Edith and lenley exchanged a look, and their eyes showed no surprise. This is Arthur they are most familiar with. Then Edith said, "everyone is persuading me to rest. I think you can give me some better advice."
"Find a psychologist." Lanli then gave an opinion, this is what Edith needs now, her psychological state needs professional help.
Edith rolled a big white eye, went to the side and sat down heavily. She put her feet on the tea table, and her whole body was uninhibited and casual. Then she complained, "Whoa, you're getting super boring now."
"He's been bored all the time, OK?" Arthur came over with whiskey and handed it to Edith and Langley respectively. "Humor is not his strong point. Thank you."
Arthur's Tucao made Edith laugh heartily. "I make complaints about it." But blue Li also rarely see did not refute, so frankly accepted Arthur and Edith's "attack".
Arthur sat down on the sofa on the other side. The three brothers and sisters formed a triangle and scattered in different corners of the study, keeping a cool distance.
Because lanli didn't reply, the whole study was quiet after the laughter. After a moment's hesitation, Edith tried to say, "lanli, you know it's not your fault. It's my decision. You should stop blaming yourself." She could sense the depression in the heart of Langley.
"Don't worry, what I'm good at is to excuse myself." Lan Li chuckled and said with no care.
Lanli chuckled and pushed aside Edith's exploration with a light attitude, but Edith was not confused, "Philip is worried about you."
Lanli's smile stopped slightly in the corner of his mouth. "Philip is worried about you, too." Seeing what Edith wanted to say, lanli cut off her words in advance. "It's about you, not about me. Let's not shift the focus. Edith, you need professional help. Don't try to escape. "
"Lanli..." Edith wants to continue to argue - it's clear that lanli is escaping, how can it become her escaping?
"Stop! Stop, stop, stop Arthur couldn't help stepping in. "You need help, and you need help. I'm the only one here who doesn't need help. So, you all stop, OK? Stop pretending you're OK, and stop trying to pass the problem on to others. No Arthur said here, pausing slightly, a little irritable, and then took a deep breath, trying to soften his tone. "This is not baswater."
Growing up, they have been used to the way George and Elizabeth get along with each other. Now that they have left beswater and come to the prince's garden, they really should not repeat the old tradition of the hall family. Arthur really didn't want to see those meaningless arguments again.
Langley and Edith were both silent, watching the whiskey in their hands, the amber liquid flowing.
Then, Lan Li said softly, "this sentence comes from the man who forgot to take care of his beard."
"..." Arthur felt that he was about to explode. Now that he had finished pruning, and his beard had become respectable and clean, he still became the butt of the story again. He deeply believed that this matter might not be washed away for a long time.
Randy and Edith both laughed happily and even exchanged their eyes, just like finishing the tacit pass. Arthur's eyes widened and protested strongly, "I'm very busy, OK? I'm just busy! Don't try to turn it to me. You are the ones who need help. "
Langley and Edith did not continue to talk, which made Arthur uncomfortable——
Over and over, he knows, Arthur knows very much about the type of their life image, otherwise how could they repeatedly make complaints about Arthur because of his sloppy beard? Precisely because of this, Arthur's embarrassed image also shows his worry, he is the same as them.
They all need help.
Arthur looked up and took a sip of whiskey. He frowned and spread out his hands. "Good. Now three psychopaths are gathering for a meeting. What, are we going to shoot "flying over the madhouse"
"I guess we're in the normal range by the hall's standards. No, we should be models. Even if we are insane, we still don't lose our etiquette. " Lanli came quietly, which made Arthur and Edith smile.
Shaking the glass gently, the radian of her mouth slowly calmed down, and Edith's thoughts settled down. After a long time of deliberation, she said again, "if I say, I want to go back to the battlefield?"
The quiet voice was like smoke and fog, the cold of night began to jump at the fingertips, with a slight tremor. It was clear that there was not much movement, but it sounded like thunder in the ear. Then, silence came like the tide, only the halo refracted by whisky was shaking.
Edith knew that this was not the best time to discuss the topic, but the problem was that it didn't seem to be the best time at all. The reason why we found lanli tonight is that Edith is also full of confusion. She needs to talk about it - although she doesn't know what she wants to talk about, or even whether she is willing to talk about it in her heart, but... As a result, the first topic throws out a heavy weight. Edith also has some confusion, and her nervous mood catches her heart.
"Have you thought about it?" Arthur was the first to speak, with a trace of hesitation in his heavy voice, but he didn't question or object directly.
Edith was slightly surprised by Arthur's opening and the content of her words. She asked, "what's your opinion?"
Arthur breathed out a long breath, "if I can, I hope things can be simpler. We don't have to worry about it every day; But I think... You should have your own choice, not change yourself for us. Anyway, we'll stand here and you know how to find our way home
Edith's nose is slightly sour, which is what she is most eager to hear. When she is alone in the front line to pursue the truth and record the truth, she needs to know that she is not fighting alone. Her ideal, her persistence, her fight... All of them are meaningful, even if it is a weak force, she also hopes to change the world.
Arthur seems to be aware of Edith's moving, his mood is also a little turbulent, he quickly then opened his mouth, in order to cover up his panic, "Scene words, this is just scene words. You and I both know that I can't change your mind. Instead of being a bad person to stop you, I'd better pretend to be a good person to help you. "
The cruel and rude words had no deterrent effect at all, which made Edith smile and said very cleverly, "yes, yes, I know."
Arthur grinned his teeth fiercely, glanced at Edith, turned his head and looked at lenley, "aren't you going to say something?"
Lanli was always sitting quietly beside him, never joining in the conversation. Now when he heard Arthur's words, he looked at Edith, "what's there?"
Not good, not bad, but a question.
Edith thought carefully. It was a matter of temperature.
Langley just noticed that Edith didn't give a positive affirmation from the beginning to the end. She just threw out a series of hypotheses. Even if Arthur asked, she didn't give a positive answer. Instead, she used rhetorical questions to explore Arthur's position. This itself shows Edith's confusion and hesitation.
It's not surprising that, having just experienced the test of life and death, Edith has no time to clear her mind. She may be in a state of confusion and looking for the answer. In lanli's opinion, instead of answering Edith's question, it's better to lead Edith to think and let her find out the answer by herself.
Even Langley, he didn't have the right answer. Because this is life - life has no right answer, and no one can give the right answer. Only when we follow our heart, step by step, make different choices and attempts on different roads, find the scenery of our own life road, and reach the end, can we find our own answer. What's really important is that every answer found in the end is right.
"There's nothing there." Edith hesitated and said, "there's no water, no food, no silence. Everything is in turmoil. One second it's peaceful, and the next it may have to escape. There's panic, there's death, there's darkness, there's a lot of corpses. I don't know, I don't know what's there, maybe there's truth, The truth that belongs to our society, there is another world beyond us. "
"I... I, I just want to go back."
Edith's words are a little confused, but they can't find a clear context. However, Langley and Arthur are watching her with great devotion. The fragmented words contain her confusion and paranoia, as well as the wounds and scars they can't see.
"It's like addiction, there's always a drive that drives me, trying to go back." Edith was completely immersed in her own world, and her confused thoughts opened up like this, "but in fact, I was also afraid, I was also afraid, every minute and every second there, I was asking myself why I came back here again and again, but I still didn't find the answer."
Edith stopped for a moment. "Can you give me the answer?" She looked up with a blank look in her eyes.