it's instinct to protect herself. before, anything that made her feel this amount of emotion was dangerous, and so it had to go. but here, she doesn't have the adepti to tell her what to do, how to think. here, she only has her own thoughts - and the thoughts of others. and she has to decide what is worth keeping.
it's hard. it's hard for someone who never has. but she listens.]
... Is that possible? [she asks, after a long moment.] We are here to die, Buzen. To be killed, by each other. The nature of the game can't be changed.
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it's instinct to protect herself. before, anything that made her feel this amount of emotion was dangerous, and so it had to go. but here, she doesn't have the adepti to tell her what to do, how to think. here, she only has her own thoughts - and the thoughts of others. and she has to decide what is worth keeping.
it's hard. it's hard for someone who never has. but she listens.]
... Is that possible? [she asks, after a long moment.] We are here to die, Buzen. To be killed, by each other. The nature of the game can't be changed.