. . . If those places are generated by it, then I find myself now skeptical of the theory that we are being 'tested' by these decisions.
Could it be, rather, that the choices we are being prompted with are meant to generate more indulgence? It would be a very significant indulgence to kill a friend out of greed, for example. [Or to eat a child out of hunger.]
I don't know. [a bristle of annoyance.] It does not often give us insights on the things it does. It just does them, and we are left to clean up the messes left behind.
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Do you see why I wanted to make sure Mercy wasn't being held somewhere?
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[Irritation? Hmm.]
But she isn't. We ought not to have worried you so.
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Don't try to take the blame. That lies with the thing skittering around the base.
[... and then, after a moment:] I lied when I said I didn't know what took my head, when we were taken to the place with the repeating hallway.
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Then those places are something it is doing as well?
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... What was all of us?
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Yes. [:unamused:] I imagine it's what took Greed's eyes, as well.
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Could it be, rather, that the choices we are being prompted with are meant to generate more indulgence? It would be a very significant indulgence to kill a friend out of greed, for example. [Or to eat a child out of hunger.]
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The thing doesn't always think the same way we do.
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I don't. But I will do whatever I have to in order to get what's mine.
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[She's honestly relieved that he doesn't think so, because that seems like bullshit to her.]
We can't approach this hoping it will all just work out if we indulge enough. We have to be smart about it.
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[he'd fight for his daughter, after all.]
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We're approaching the end, correct?
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