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I want to know. And impatience - I can only learn that kind of stuff when you're around, right? And look, you left.

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Sigh, Rin. Siiiigh.

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[Her frown deepens. B(] I'm not sure I have the rhetorical vocabulary to argue any of this with you the way I'd like to argue it.

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Few do. What a pity.

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...Anyway.

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Too bad you weren't showing yourself for a while here... I'm sure you'd have had the time of your life being obnoxious about stuff. There's so much trouble that you could have mocked me for getting into.

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Such as?

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D'you have any thoughts on Cabot, in retrospect?

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He made errors that suggested his plan was designed to be beaten... or perhaps he, himself, was designed to be beaten.

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Yeah. In a nutshell.

Anything else?

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I have no other opinions on him.

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None at all? Well.

...I asked you several times about what you sensed about Joshua, and you'd never tell me. I'll swap you personal information, a question of similar depth, if you answer me that.

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You're so interested in what I knew of him that you'd sell yourself out?

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...When you put it like that, maybe not. I guess... I don't know. Maybe I don't need your input.

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Perhaps not. I'm surprised I have to remind you.

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I don't get it. It's what you want to learn, right? Why would you bother nipping that in the bud?

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Because experience teaches me that any story told out of obligation tends to be riddled with lies, shortcuts and inaccuracies.

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I also thought you told me you'd pretty much gathered the whole story, anyway.

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Ergo, I don't need to hear a false account of it.

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...Joshua made Cabot.

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Fascinating. Have you found out a motive?

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It could've been just because he was bored. Joshua being Joshua.

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And the rest of the residents are pawns for his entertainment.

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Maybe. I mean... I think he's pretty selfish? But I'm still... well. Some people went after him. I guess I persuaded him not to completely toast their brains, mostly.

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And how did you accomplish that?

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I told him it would be more fun for him if he let them try. If he gave himself a challenge. Since there had to be something to them, if they'd figured out what kind of power he was and what he'd done.

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He must be lacking in self-restraint, to fall for that.