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I have two things to speak of today, starting with the one directed to the residents of this Tower as a whole.

[She holds up a striped billiard ball from the bar on the 88th Floor.]

I wish to learn to play this game. Who can teach me?

[She then idly rolls the ball in her fingers as she continues.]

As for the other matter, it is directed to those from my world or a variation of it where a specific war takes place involving magi. With Rider gone, his ridiculous idea of a conclave amongst us to discuss the War and those of us involved in it should also disappear.

Though I understand why the King of Conquerors wished for the gathering, it was folly to believe such a thing could ever happen and remain peaceful. There are worst fates than a death that does not take here. I know that there was one that had been planning to use Rider's conclave as means to gaining power with all gathered in one location. Had Rider carried his meeting out before his disappearance, I would have seen to neutralizing that threat.

Should another of you be foolish enough to pursue this idea, I will not and you will reap what you sow.

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How foolish, to believe a discussion of a war that takes place outside these walls could ever take place inside them and remain peaceful. It isn't my place to ask for details, of course, but I've seen some things in my own world that are not pretty. Disputes over perceived territory being the worst. In a case like that, pride alone leads to conflict. I don't know that if every single person from my own world were to gather here that the meeting could have remained entirely peaceful, and there isn't full-out war.

Exactly. And yet so many naively believed otherwise.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could think that way, if everyone knew the situation was a war. You know going into it that things are going to be fractious, at best, and at worst? Who knows?

There is more to it than a standard war, Saki. I will not go into detail, but many argue the goal of the War is not present here, therefore we should all work together, hold hands and braid wildflowers into each others hair.

Even if the goal isn't present, that doesn't mean the participants' aims necessarily change completely, no? It's still naive to think that everyone's motives are necessarily good if you've only faced them on opposing sides.

I'm speaking without knowledge of the matter, and it's still not my place to ask, but that's what I think. One doesn't automatically become someone's ally just because the situation they are in changes.

I believe the saying I should use here is 'you are preaching to the choir'.

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