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[heavenscorpse]

You have to send me back, please- I can fix this, maybe they're not all dead, maybe I haven't destroyed everyone yet, but if I'm here then I can't do anything!

Please.

[She flutters her wings uncertainly. It looks like she's been crying.]

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[ audio ]

[heavenscorpse]

But everyone's thoughts were beautiful and pure.

[ audio ]

[oforder]

They were? That is fascinating. Clinging to hope, and optimism, when their own planet is gone.

Humanity was always best known for its tunnel vision, even when they fixate on only the positive.

[ audio ]

[heavenscorpse]

I don't think pessimism would have helped, though.

[ audio ]

[oforder]

It is not pessimistic to accept reality.

[ audio ]

[heavenscorpse]

Giving up hope?

[ audio ]

[oforder]

Hope is irrelevant when you already know the future.

[ audio ]

[heavenscorpse]

Nobody can know the future. There's a tiny chance that you will draw a white marble from a bag of one white and countless black marbles.

[ audio ]

[oforder]

I know the future.

[ audio ]

[heavenscorpse]

Really?

[ audio ]

[oforder]

Yes. I am able to predict the future by observing the Collective Unconscious.

[ audio ]

[heavenscorpse]

How does that work?

[ audio ]

[oforder]

It is very difficult to explain. However, it requires a mind powerful enough to handle the combined knowledge of the entire universe, as well as the capacity to interpret it. A lesser mind would break under the sheer weight of it.

[ audio ]

[heavenscorpse]

That's amazing. I know I couldn't do that.

[ audio ]

[oforder]

It was one of the main reasons for which I was created.

[ audio ]

[heavenscorpse]

Oh, you were created by somebody?

[ audio ]

[oforder]

In a manner of speaking.

[ audio ]

[heavenscorpse]

That's something strange. Do you get along with your creator?

[ audio ]

[oforder]

My creator is not a who. It is a what. And whether or not I 'like' it is irrelevant.

[ audio ]

[heavenscorpse]

Isn't it always relevant, though? People's feelings are important.

[ audio ]

[oforder]

It is as useful to me as I am to it. Does that answer your question?

[ audio ]

[heavenscorpse]

...So it's like a partnership?

[ audio ]

[oforder]

That is more accurate, yes.

[ If a very, very simplified explanation. ]

[ audio ]

[heavenscorpse]

Well, I'm glad your partnership is working.

[ audio ]

[oforder]

That is appreciated.

[ ... he thinks. ]

[ audio ]

[heavenscorpse]

I'm going to go explore the tower. Thank you for talking to me.