"A friend," Loki started slowly, thoughtfully. "Is someone that you have common or at least related goals with, someone that you're useful to and who'll be on your side in return. Or sometimes it's someone that you give something useful to them, so they'll help you in return and the original interests aren't shared. In that case you just adopt their goal in exchange for them adopting yours. What's important about it is to remember that the friendship of people is always temporary. It passes, so you should never get too close."
If only he could learn to listen to his own advice about that! He just kept getting attached to people. The whole John debacle was his fault really. He shouldn't have let the human come to mean anything to him.
"Bast and Horus are a more complicated question, though," he continued. "I suppose it depends on whether they're more animals or people. Animals form friendships either through the stomach or the heart. The later kind often lasts a lifetime."
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Wrong person to ask, Uriel. Really wrong person.
Date: 2006-11-11 08:52 am (UTC)If only he could learn to listen to his own advice about that! He just kept getting attached to people. The whole John debacle was his fault really. He shouldn't have let the human come to mean anything to him.
"Bast and Horus are a more complicated question, though," he continued. "I suppose it depends on whether they're more animals or people. Animals form friendships either through the stomach or the heart. The later kind often lasts a lifetime."