mercurialize | Eighteenth

[Public Voice]

I've talked to a few of you about this, but all right. Question. People come here because they have to fix themselves, right? That's rhetorical. My real question is, do they actually deserve it or is it just because they can be changed?

We don't actually have that answer, do we?

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Then, for you guys, is that change even helpful or would you call it harmful to your way of life? Whatever it was before. People make enemies, I know how it is.

[Open Action Spam: Gym]

[Kylar's around every early morning that the Barge isn't on fire or trying to rhyme and sing with itself. With the ka'kari back at his disposal he has a ton of practicing to do. Today's stunt, he tries to coat a training dummy with the ka'kari. Giving it a thick black metalic armor. He knows better than to attack it with Retribution, actually, the ka'kari warned him of that. There will be questions of Why later.

So he tears at it with a dagger attempting every move he can think of. But the dagger is taking far more damage than the ka'kari, in fact, the metal hasn't even dented. When he's done, he wills the ka'kari back into his skin. There's just one problem.]

You ate the dummy!

~Devourer.~

Stop it! I'm supposed to be keeping an eye on this stuff from people destroying it. Not destroying it myself.

~You never learn, do you? First, you complain when I don't obey, now you complain when I do. Which will it be next time?~

You weren't supposed to eat-

[Wait. Is someone else in here?]

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A more pertinent question might be as to whether your way of life is one that should be changed.

No, it shouldn't change.

And it doesn't exactly work like that, anyways. You can't just walk away whenever you please. I tried that. Now I'm here.

[Right, he's skipping a lot. Like 3 months of a lot.]

Can you not?

[ Her tone is lofty, distant. She's not very good at giving advice, or even at recognizing when someone is asking for it. ]

I should think that after so many dozens of deaths I should be able to walk where I please.

Nope.

[Stubborn oops]

Walking where you pleased has never gotten you killed, or someone else? Out of all of those deaths?

[ Her eyes narrow dangerously. ]

The only ones responsible for my deaths are those that murdered me.

So the reason they murdered you wasn't at all in response to something you did before?

They are responsible for their actions as I am responsible for mine.

Okay. Let me ask you this in a different way.

Did you do something to these people that made them want to murder you? Or are you just some innocent victim, twelve times over.

[Which, admittedly, would suck.]

They were afraid. Humans fear that which they do not understand.

They killed you because you were just being yourself..?

Then, why are you here?

I do not know. I am inclined to believe that the barge has reasons more complex than we have guessed at.

Such as?

It does not matter to me. I care only that I may regain my freedom.

You think the two have no correlation, even though you don't know why you're here and you just called the Barge more complex than what we know. So, if you want to regain your freedom, shouldn't you be trying to figure that out?

That is the job of my warden. I have tried to free myself. It is impossible without the aid of an outside perspective.

... I wouldn't get your hopes up. But good luck with that.

I thank you for your concern. Iris seems quite capable.

Well, she has been here a while, to my knowledge anyway.

She is, if nothing else, an interesting woman to know.

[He laughs a little.]

You'd have to be to stay here so long.

Yes, I suppose you must.

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