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Hunting? Really? There's no way I can do this. Goddess, why couldn't I have stayed in today...
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Petra enters the scene
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Bernadetta. Is this a trouble you are having?
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Petra
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I heard that the duty to hunt is yours today.
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The duties all got assigned while I was holed up in my room...
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Petra
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Do not be worrying. I can show you the way to hunt well.
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Bernadetta
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Oh, um... OK, then...
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When you see a beast, you are thinking of it as an enemy.
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Petra
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That is how prey thinks.
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Petra
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You must think of the beasts as food. That is how the hunter thinks.
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Bernadetta
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So it's not an enemy. It's food.
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But, um, how is it food when it's still alive?
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Petra
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You pick the vegetables from the field. Those have life too. It is the same.
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Petra
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You take a blade in your hand and take the lives of the vegetables. You cut their stalks and harvest without mercy.
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They do not scream, but you are still their killer.
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Bernadetta
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K-killer?!
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Petra
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Fruit ripens and falls to the ground. The seeds sprout and a new life is born.
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Petra
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That is life's cycle. It has cruelty, yes. But you must end life to eat. You must be killing to be living.
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Bernadetta
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Maybe, but I don't know if I want to be some...some kind of vegetable murderer!
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Petra
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It is the same for rabbits, deer, pheasants. The only difference being that they cannot cry out.
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Petra
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You must do what you must do to be living in this world. It is your task.
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A task. Yes, just a task. A completely mindless task.
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Feel it. There, in the grass. Prey is moving. Just like a vegetable in the wind.
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Give it an arrow, just like you would give a vegetable a blade. It is just your task.
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Bernadetta
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Uh, right. That makes sense. It's just like cutting a stem.
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Petra
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You are now a hunter. You have learned how to hunt.
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Bernadetta
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I am? I have? Oh, good! What a relief.
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Petra
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You have understanding now, I can tell.
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Bernadetta
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Great! Leave it to me. I'll hunt down my prey just like they're vegetables.
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Petra
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I have belief in you.
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Bernadetta
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Aw, thanks, Petra! I can do this!
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Bernadetta
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Make way for Huntmaster Bernie!
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Petra
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Have luck, Bernie.
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Bernadetta
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Ugh! Ow! Wh-what?
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Bernadetta
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No! Stay back! I'm sorry, Mr. Rabbit! I didn't mean it!
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Bernadetta
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Why are you the one chasing me?! Ow!