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[wegotlucky]

What do you do when you wake up to realize that you're once again entirely alone?

A promise of change that never happens. In this place, of all places, I was almost happy again. I could have been happy again.

But then I woke up. And I was once again completely alone.

How do you go on from that? Is it even possible?

Comments

[wegotlucky]

[He can't really blame her. He's also been in the Tower long enough that such a statement doesn't even register as odd anymore.]

Just be careful. She barely cares about her own allies.

[chainsawn]

That only shows she's even worse of a person, right? You're supposed to care about your friends. People close to you are the most important thing possible.

Yet she doesn't have any she cares for like that.

[wegotlucky]

Yeah, she's pretty terrible.

But she claims that she did all of this to save us. That's a lie, obviously, but you can never be too careful. She's stronger than any of us, including people who can use magic.

[chainsawn]

Then what do we do?

Someone told me I have to protect the person important to me from Ruana.

But if I can't beat her, then I can't protect that person either. Right?

[wegotlucky]

There's got to be other ways besides fighting her.

At least until we know we can beat her.

[chainsawn]

How do you protect people from someone without fighting and killing that person?

[ Probably a weird question coming from a 15 year old teenage girl from a very normal living situation back home... ]

[wegotlucky]

There are plenty of ways.

[chainsawn]

Can you name one? I would like to try it.

No, it's more that I have to try it.

[wegotlucky]

You could hide them away. Sometimes, fighting doesn't have to involve killing. You can fight knowing that you might lose but that you can help stop an evil.

If... if it has to deal with Ruana, does it have to do with the fact that she has threatened to start eating worlds?

[chainsawn]

Ruana's a danger to the people who were sent away to wander their destroyed world.

Everyone who's not in the tower anymore.

And from that group, there's someone I have to save. For sure.

[wegotlucky]

Yeah, I know.

But we don't even know if we can kill her right now. We're in a tough spot.

[chainsawn]

Of course we can kill her.

All I need to do is find her. And then I'll cut her. I'll cut her until she's in tiny pieces, and then I'll cut those too. I wonder what kind of sound she'll make.

[wegotlucky]

She'd kill you first.

Trust me with this.

Probably would be able to get you to turn your blade on yourself.

[Such violent thoughts don't even phase him in the least.]

[chainsawn]

[ She actually does recognize that last phrase. It's happened to her, although she didn't think it was Ruana. That time in that dream when she tried to free the dog and instead it cut her.

Did she do that..? ]

If she tries to cut me, I'll cut her back more. I'll cut her up even if it cuts us both.

[wegotlucky]

For your sake, I hope that's not just determination.

[She might be a stranger, but he can't help but feel protective of kids who feel as lost as he used to feel.]