yeah, that seems closer to the truth. i don't know why it has to be us, either. even if it thinks half of us can kill, or do anything about fate.

[It's not really a lighthearted or a flippant observation, but he's not committed to it, either. A threatening app that wants to be thought of as protection. And more mysteries than he can count surrounding it, perhaps more than the entire mystery of Eddan together.]

it was the same for me, for the contract.

[Even if it still feels familiar. Like the choice isn't new. Like he's accepted this before, a choice that isn't a choice. It's probably just the hallucination, messing with his head.]