Audience - Euphausia

[holyspirits]

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[trifocal]

Why did you need him? Couldn't it be someone else?

[hotfixer]

It would have been easier if it could have been anyone. Even me.

But his identity was our leverage.

[trifocal]

[ well. she kind of knows what it's like, to be the one person whose very life can be used for an important purpose. she understands a society that would ask a person to make such a sacrifice. ]

... Did he complete that duty?

[hotfixer]

He did. And it caused his emulation to corrupt completely.

[trifocal]

[ she doesn't know what that means exactly, but. that sounds like death. ]

I'm sorry. It looked like you cared for him.

[hotfixer]

I love him.

[trifocal]

[ !! ]

Oh...

I cannot imagine how painful that must have been.

[hotfixer]

It was necessary. But... still the hardest thing I've ever been through.

[ which is actually kind of a fucked up thing to be saying because people keep dying here. which she is also sad about. but. ]

[trifocal]

[ ... ]

If he has died, could he be in Heaven? In one of the places we cannot yet reach?

[hotfixer]

[ a long. pause. ]

Well, honestly I'm leaving out a whole confusing bit at the end, so I'm not sure he's still dead.

[trifocal]

Then, he may yet live?

[hotfixer]

May...be...?

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