[Lesson 31]

[lady_bounty]

[screened to Edward Elric and Pharaun Mizzrym//unhackable]Hypothetical question. Something bad's coming, we all know that. It's probably the Entropi coming to destroy us and the world and all of everything, and everybody's in a tizzy getting ready to fight them. ...Question is this. If you had a possible means of escaping back to where you

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[Screened to Faye//Unhackable]

[berranyrmizzrym]

Any sensible person would jump at the chance.

Then again, I never claimed to be sensible. In any case I'm rather attached to my home, and I'd just as soon see that the Entropi didn't have a chance to do to it what they'd done to this world.

[Screened to Pharaun//Unhackable]

[lady_bounty]

You think the best chance to stop the Entropi is here, with just a handful of us, instead of, say, warning our home worlds of the danger? Perhaps allowing them to be ready and waiting before the Entropi get there?

[Screened to Faye//Unhackable]

[berranyrmizzrym]

You're forgetting one crucial detail, Mistress Faye:

How likely are the people on your home world to believe that they're in danger from life-draining balls of light from an alternate universe?

[Screened to Pharaun//Unhackable]

[lady_bounty]

...Yeah, I know. They'd call us crazy and go back to their lives. I mean, I'm no one important, why would anyone listen to me?

I guess I just... I can't believe we're the best they've got. This is their plan to save the world? Their plan sucks!

...But I guess I'm just projecting my own feelings of uselessness. I can't do anything except sit and wait for them to come and kill me... I'm not doing any good here! You at least can help fight back.

Well, the point is moot anyway. It's much to late for clever escape plans.

...You ever talk to Gaz about sending your energy-draining spell through a barrier?

[Screened to Faye//Unhackable]

[oneis_all_isone]

That's a hard one.

First impulse: Yes. No question. I want to go back to my brother more than anything. If I stayed here and died, I'd be breaking my promise to him.

But...The means are only "possible" and the chance for others to escape is just "maybe." It's a different situation, but Alphonse and I have already decided we wouldn't save ourselves at the expense of others. Al would forgive me if I stayed. I don't think he would if I left - not like that.

...I think I'd say, no. I'd stay.

[Screened to Ed//Unhackable]

[lady_bounty]

...You're a good kid, Ed. ...Sorry. Man.

Re: [Screened to Faye//Unhackable]

[oneis_all_isone]

Um...thanks. Sorry for what, though?

...Something wrong?

[Screened to Ed//Unhackable]

[lady_bounty]

I was apologizing for calling you 'kid'. Last time I did that you complained. ...Anyway, I don't think it's accurate. You don't act like one.