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[blackfire]

Do you expect she has cause to lie?

[firstroar]

She claims to have no maker - that she constructed herself.
That in of itself is reason to question. But since my empathic powers cannot perceive her as something with emotions, I cannot prove if she is being true.

[blackfire]

Given the circumstances of our coming here, that is the thing you find difficult to believe?

（ forreal??? ）

[firstroar]

Our circumstances are bound by feelings...or the manipulation of them. That I understand.
It's their absence that blinds me.

[blackfire]

What you perceive as absence may simply be a form of them beyond your understanding.

I imagine Mu are not so infallible as all that.

[firstroar]

Yet one of the few things I've found I share with humans...is the struggle to believe in the things my senses cannot perceive. Any sense.

[blackfire]

You are accustomed to relying on your psychic abilities to gauge others. Humans are already absent that advantage, and must trust other means.

What did your other senses tell you of her?

[firstroar]

She conveys sincerity. It may as well be true as far as she knows.
For now, there is little to argue with, since I don't have the means to defy her myself.

[blackfire]

Then we will look for an opportunity on the next mission.

[firstroar]

Yes, I wish to make the effort to try.

[blackfire]

Does the possibility of your safety being compromised not concern you?

[firstroar]

It does, but I would rather take the risk than subject another to it. Whatever information I can share with those stronger than I is meaningful, especially to those who are more determined to change their fates than I.

[blackfire]

（ he has lived his life by the guiding principle that he alone had the power and the will to advance his beliefs and his ideals. that if there was some ill thing to be endured, he should be the one to endure it. he accepted burdens that, as an adult, he recognizes should never have been placed on the shoulders of a child.

and he hears an echo of that man, subsumed by guilt and duty, in what blue says.

he does not reply immediately. the words require — reflection. he is bound to and by his past, and its excision is neither easy nor immediate. but eventually: ）

Some things should not be borne alone.

[firstroar]

True enough - this place is built on that notion, isn't it.
And you did say I could ask for your aid once again, yes?

[blackfire]

Should you have need of it.

[firstroar]

I very likely shall. All the psionic power I may have left will be of no use if I cannot reach where I must be.

[blackfire]

（ that is... an oddly ominous statement, if he is to unpack it. ）

Is it a finite resource?

[firstroar]

As finite as I am. It is an extension of myself, just as my eyes or limbs are.

[blackfire]

（ hm. ）

Your condition is deteriorating, isn't it?

（ from one terminally ill motherfucker to another. ）

[firstroar]

Yes.
I was meant to die before I came here. I had already expunged most of my power moments before. Had Sabriel not found me as swiftly as she had, I very well may have done so right then and there.

[blackfire]

How many are aware of this?

[firstroar]

[there's a pause so Blue can give it some thought.]

I don't know how explicitly I have spoken of it until now. It seemed obvious to those who have had to help me.
But perhaps not. [goddamn humans and their goddamn flippy-floppy levels of insight]

[blackfire]

（ he knew something was Up but attributed it to, idk, maybe the mu are just frail babies??? ）

A great many humans prefer denial to cold reality.

You have strong bonds here. I do not think any of them would be pleased to lose you.

[firstroar]

I don't want to lose them, either.
But I don't think there is much that can stop that.
Something in my being wished me to be here, to address the regrets of my life...do I simply set that aside for my own safety?
It's a question I must continue to seek the answer to while also trying to help those I have come to care very much for.

[blackfire]

Speak with the Doctor.

（ hopefully he does not have to specify......... which one... ）

Your regret will be irrelevant if you do not live to see it changed.