[text] i don't find this stuff amusing any more

[bedsidemanners]

None of you made particularly good angels yesterday. A little too much righteous indignation and not enough regard for personal safety.

Let's talk about disappearances. vanishings, if you'll humor me. I'm not particular. Not only from this place, I've heard enough over the last year about that. i mean regular disappearances, supposed conspiracies and cover ups, all sorts of other nonsense. I hear there's a whole market for that sort of thing on Assiah, and thus far I don't see the appeal. Enlighten me.

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[sympathyforme]

I don't, just obvious now that I think about it.

You know, you're probably going to survive. No wonder you're scared.

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[bedsidemanners]

I know someone who isn't.

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[sympathyforme]

Not scared, not surviving. True.

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[bedsidemanners]

And still not wanting to remain here, either? With the Messiah and Alexiel both? Come on, surely they haven't lost their charms after only a few months.

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[sympathyforme]

Heh. I stay with him, but the City gives me no choice either way. And that's why I don't like it.

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[bedsidemanners]

That's hardly an argument when you would have done it regardless.

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[sympathyforme]

So you value the choice more than the lack of option?

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[bedsidemanners]

If you'd rather put it that way. I fail to see what's so disheartening about your circumstances in particular.

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[sympathyforme]

Nothing.

I'm not really selfish.

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[bedsidemanners]

[it's just not worth it to argue that. not today.]

But you are unreasonable.

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[sympathyforme]

How so?

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[bedsidemanners]

The longest that anyone has ever stayed in this city, at least as far as I've asked around, is about five years. That's not even an eyeblink of time.

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[sympathyforme]

I'm one for principles.

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[bedsidemanners]

The hell you are. You're no different than you ever were. You aren't satisfied unless you have something to try to topple.

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[sympathyforme]

I advocate free will. Strongly.

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[bedsidemanners]

This is meaningless.

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[sympathyforme]

Anything would seem meaningless from your position, that's not actually saying much.

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[bedsidemanners]

You didn't really expect me to agree, did you?

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[sympathyforme]

No. You're very predictable. I just like talking to you because it leaves you more agitated than me.