Audience: Harrowhark Nonagesimus

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I can see how you guys are similar for sure. I wouldn't put all my eggs in his basket though? Like, he puts on a big show about knowing everything but he doesn't know any more than I do. Don't tell him I said that, he'll never speak to me again.

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. . . It is easier to seem like you know quite a bit if you insist on withholding much of what you know.

[She'll just sort of admit that as a conspiratorial aside. She doesn't mind how Greed acts at all, and kind of respects that, but. . .]

I haven't put all of my eggs in anyone's basket. But all right, I'll bite. What are the motives people are killing over? Is it only as an indulgence and to winnow the population, or is there something more we don't know about?

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[snort.] I know you haven't, that was, uh, general - you've been good about talking to all of us, even the bratpack. [anyway.] Mostly, I feel like people are killing because... they want to. Because it's an indulgence for them, and because they think it'll get them somewhere.

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. . . The bratpack?

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Mostly? Is that a qualification because some people are killing due to being mired in personality drama, or is it a qualification with more meaning?

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Yeah. Uh, Despair, Pride, Gluttony and Greed. ... And, no extra meaning. I gotta be less wishy-washy with my speech, you guys like to pick holes, jesus. Which I don't blame you for, I'd do the same thing.

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Oh. No, three out of four I find to be perfectly decent company.

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It's only that that is not the impression I've had from talking with Greed, exactly.

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Yeah, no, listen - I like all of them fine. But they're brats. [brat (affectionate)] Anyway I think, uh - this is the trouble is that all of us have opinions? And those opinions vary. Sorry, I know that's not super helpful, but we're not really always a cohesive unit, you know? We're a bunch of ding dongs and we fight over stuff constantly.

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Opinions? Then, do you mean to say - you don't know what the "bigger picture" behind the motives might be? Or rather, you doubt that there is one, but don't know for certain?

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I think you're overthinking, boo. My opinion is that I think they're doing it because they think they're getting ahead. Greed probably thinks something else? I don't know, I haven't talked to him about it. I maybe - also, don't... understand what you're asking me? That's possible! Because you're doing a lot of hey Wrath let me verbally kabedon you into a corner.

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I'm really not trying to. [Sincerely] I just - assumed that you all knew everyone's reasons.

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I only know as much as I'm told - or whatever I look up, and the process of - doing that, is really difficult and tiring. Just so you know.

[bonetiddies]

Ah. Hmm. It endangers you, to look these things up? It causes you harm?

[Like. The way she phrased it was kind of 'I don't feel like it' and she might have made a scathing comment about that, but she doesn't think Wrath is really so indifferent.]

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Yeah. Harm's a good word.

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[Gotcha.]

Then it is not to be contemplated unless truly necessary, and must not be used due to our inability to discover something we could have learned ourselves.

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[she nods a little.] It depends on uh, how much you care about what happens to us. Which - isn't emotional manipulation! It's not meant to be! But that does have a lot to do with it.

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No, you misunderstand me. That wasn't a question, it was a demand.

[Don't go hurt yourselves just because they can't solve trials!!!]

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[oh a beat, and then she laughs.] Got it! Got it. [...] Thanks.