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interveningly January 28 2011, 18:30:05 UTC
[Long pause as he tries to sort out his feelings about this]

...You named yourself after your unit designation. [Yeah, commenting on the easy thing first.]

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ghost_of_00 January 28 2011, 19:47:39 UTC
Yes.

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interveningly January 28 2011, 19:58:24 UTC
[He wonders now if Veda was his unit's designation. It makes sense, but it doesn't feel quite right. And speaking of things that don't feel right.]

I understand the logic of sacrificing a pawn to protect a target of greater strategic worth - but somehow it feels 'wrong'.

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ghost_of_00 January 28 2011, 20:05:58 UTC
He needed to destroy the target without being attacked. Why is it wrong? [the question has a curious inflection.]

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darcyredux January 28 2011, 18:44:58 UTC
You cared for him.

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ghost_of_00 January 28 2011, 19:49:53 UTC
[......]

I did.

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darcyredux January 28 2011, 21:00:13 UTC
Maybe he'll appear again.

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ghost_of_00 January 28 2011, 21:02:31 UTC
Yes. I would like to meet him.

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lingeringlegacy January 29 2011, 06:15:45 UTC
[It takes her some time to respond, mostly to let 00 know she was listening. The vocabulary used, the mechanical sounds, along with what 00 told her about her dream birth forms an unsettling scenario.]

Our worlds seem quite alike, 00. Though perhaps I shouldn't find it surprising.

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ghost_of_00 January 29 2011, 14:45:59 UTC
Yes. Though I don't know what the enemy was.

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lingeringlegacy January 29 2011, 15:51:37 UTC
Do you know whether you did it out of your own will?

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ghost_of_00 January 29 2011, 16:00:33 UTC
[there's a long pause.]

I think so.

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