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[payback]

I...







[There's a long pause here, where she fidgits with her hands and looks down at her knees, at her fingers and her fingernails, avoiding eye contact. This is painful to start even a few years removed from the original event - getting stronger every day, but still raw and oozing and wet under where it's scabbed over. Nothing's hurting right now, of course, but there are... these little flutters of sensation that could so easily become pain. Later. Soon. Once they start digging around.]

So. [She swallows.] How... exactly... did you want me to start?

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[payback.livejournal.com]

It was disgusting. It's still disgusting. The whole thing.

There was no way around killing him. But the fact that that creature was made in the first place...

[illusionist.livejournal.com]

And yet, sometimes, sacrifices must be made for science.

[payback.livejournal.com]

Was that really for science? Was that anything other than hubris?

[illusionist.livejournal.com]

You'd be a better judge of that than I am, but really, it can be an attempt to unlock the secrets of the world and hubristic at the same time.

[payback.livejournal.com]

[A pause, just to look at him for a second.]

...What's curiosity without morality to guide it?

[illusionist.livejournal.com]

[he almost laughs, surprisingly]

When the individual or board has power? A disaster waiting to happen.

[payback.livejournal.com]

[...Looks at him another moment, and then glances down.]

...There are some other immortals that I would happily... well. You could do whatever you liked with them.

Not Manji. I've been apart from him way too long.