It's an understandable one, still. I've sent my fair share of people into danger, and even if it's all for the sake of the world...
It may be necessary, but it isn't easy. I think that knowing the weight of what you ask of them is necessary-- it would be easier if we didn't think of it, but who would we be, then?
[ Claude steps into the memory easily, the situation laid out ahead of him, the consequences and characters making perfect sense as he watches it unfold.
Until he's back in his chair, and just looking at her with questions. ]
[she shakes her head to clear it, there, a little disoriented. she dislikes thinking back on that place, or on-- well, maybe she can't call it her actual age anymore.]
But in the pursuit of trying to save the world, it was-- an acceptable sacrifice to make, until I failed.
I don't think it was, no. It was-- designed to make its participants suffer, the entities running it fed on that. When we were first trapped here, when the first murder happened... I thought then that it must be something similar.
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[she understands that-- pretty damn well.]
If they don't need to be involved, they shouldn't be.
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[ He sighs, leaning back. ]
Which is likely a selfish thought, when I've sent men and women to die on the field for our country.
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It may be necessary, but it isn't easy. I think that knowing the weight of what you ask of them is necessary-- it would be easier if we didn't think of it, but who would we be, then?
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[ He laughs. ]
Sometimes I think we must be masochists for wanting to fight for the world.
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[as long as the people she cares about are safe, and her world is safe, she'll sacrifice what she has to.
and the memory claude gets likely says as much.]
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Until he's back in his chair, and just looking at her with questions. ]
... Twenty years of your life is a steep price.
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[she shakes her head to clear it, there, a little disoriented. she dislikes thinking back on that place, or on-- well, maybe she can't call it her actual age anymore.]
But in the pursuit of trying to save the world, it was-- an acceptable sacrifice to make, until I failed.
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[ He looks down at his cup. ]
This Wonderland doesn't sound so different from what we're dealing with here.
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[ gruesome ]
And you escaped by surrendering 20 years of your life?
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