applenet | 7/9, backdated - Flowers and Murder

Chikusa Kakimoto CKastaroth@applenet.net
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I'm going to assume that a day is enough for us to recover well enough over everything, so there are a few things I want to address now that the app has been secured again.

First of all, since it's troublesome only speaking on the app and we never know when it might be compromised again, I made a code for us to use in reference to each other. It's not completely finished but it should give you an idea of what I'm going for. I'm open to any other suggestions on what to add to it. Different demons have been assigned different flowers. Combatants and Navigators can be distinguished by where they "grow".

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Secondly, we need a place to meet up in real life. A few times in the past, the first round has used my dorm, but that isn't sustainable especially since other Awakened are and can be adults. I suggest a school-funded cafe project. Those of us attending Green Valley can use various excuses as an extracuricular activity focusing on economics, cooking, or whatever else. Adults could act as supervisors. Someone is free to mention a better idea.

Finally, I think we should start investigating figures of significance in Eddan and preparing to dispose of them if they turn out to have anything to do with our current situation.

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People aren't all the same as one another. Just because you've met people who were one way doesn't mean these people are the same.

I don't care if the person wants to be saved or not; I'll help them anyway. People can change their minds, and they have the right to be given the chance to do so. And again, this isn't necessarily what's really happening anyway; you can't make a judgment on someone without knowing what the truth is.

You'd want to have the same done for you, wouldn't you?

I know that. It is one of the reasons why I decided to save your kind before.

Are you sure there will be enough of their minds left to change?

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Let me ask you this: What do you consider life?

["Her kind?" That strikes uncomfortably, but Ran is focused in on this enough not to ask.]

They deserve the chance. No matter how much is there. I don't have the right to judge that. I'll still help them no matter what.

[The question catches her by surprise a little, but she follows the trail of the conversation anyway:] Life is precious, and it's the right of each person to have it and live to the fullest extent that they can.

Or did you mean what do I consider being alive?

I knew a man who's only wish was to consume the world in an ending, preferably one in which nothing could be recovered. It brought him to destruction. Would you have tried to save him even if he decided that you would only perfect by dying?

The last part is what I mean. [ He dismisses her answer to the top part even if he had heard of them before - yelled at him in fact by a man who was an empty shell of a person when they had first met. ]

[She presses her lips together a moment before responding. He's given her a careful answer; it merits her giving a careful one back.]

I can't say I've ever been in a position like that. But . . . I was in New York City once, and a man drew a gun on me. He was about to pull the trigger when the railing behind him on the fire escape broke, and he started to fall. I grabbed his hand.

I've replayed that a lot in my mind, and maybe it was dangerous, but every time, I can't see myself doing anything different. I can't just let a person die. Not when I could do something. I guess I have to think if I were in the situation you described, I'd want to do the same thing.

The other question is harder . . . I think doctors and philosophers have a hard time deciding exactly what that is, and I don't even have their level of training. I'm not sure I have an answer. It would depend on the situation. If you're trying to ask if I would still save that person, though . . . I think the answer would still be yes. If that person was still alive, I would try.

Be careful with that need to reach out your hand. One that I know who did that was damaged through how it blinded him to the real danger.

[ It was typed offhandedly as if it didn't matter, but he did mean it sincerely. Eiji was damaged and damaged a lot from what had happened to him. It made him perfect to use Os but it was still painful to hear the silences between his smiles.

Not that Ankh would have ever told him that. ]

There are many things that can imitate life without actually being alive. I believe that there are even diseases that mimic without truly being alive.

Do you think he regrets that?

I'm not sure I could do anything else. I don't know how.

[It's not audible through text, but that's fully honest, a little self-deprecating. Ran knows she's putting herself in danger in that kind of situation . . . but she couldn't back down if she tried.]

I haven't run into that. But . . . I can't tell you my answer would change. I don't think I have the right to judge -- and I can't, especially not within the moment.

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What use would it be for me to drag up a memory that he still has nightmares over?

[ Don't press it. He is indulging her a little but he will not talk any more about it. He has learned to at least let his humans sort out some of their problems without dragging more to them. ]

Interesting.

Ah, I'm not asking you to bring it up to him. I just wondered if you knew.

I think sometimes we do things because they feel like they're the things we have to do for whatever reason. Even though they could cost. Or do cost.

Who does not have regrets?

The problem with those regrets is how much people let those regrets drag them from their full potential.

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