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With all the collective knowledge gathered here over the seasons, each individual is likely to have questions to which there is still no clear answer. I'm sure it would be the case even within our own worlds, where there are things about yourself you don’t want others to know.

With that, I ask one such question.

If you knew one day you would no longer be yourself, and carry out the will to become a ruthless killer, how would you stop yourself? No matter how hard you fought to fight against or prepare for that fate, it was for nothing because the new you would be able to tear those preparations down easily?

Some have claimed that arriving in this city is nearly the same as having a blank slate; regardless of that, there are inherit parts of yourself that will follow you no matter what. Good deeds or bad, whatever bonds you may have formed, what if one day you decide you want it all gone by using that very same trust against them?

Because you have that trust, no one would ever suspect it was you and this new mentality will have erased any attachments that would get in the way of fulfilling that goal. They are your unknowing puppets until you no longer have use for them, and then they are disposed of without tracing back to you.

What would you do if you knew this fate was fast approaching you?

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We are what we choose to be.

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Then it is only a matter of will?

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Not only. But it is more important than many wish to admit.

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Are you saying that because there are many who do not have the strength of will to resist such things?

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I say this because too many choose to believe they have no say in what they become.

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Is that so? I've come across the opposite mentality here than that one.

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Many of the people here are exceptional.

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Some would argue that it's another way of saying no one is.

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Perhaps. But I'm not here to debate semantics. I've known of thousands of men who turn to 'fate' to decide the course of their lives. Few enough were willing to admit that they have a hand in it, and fewer still are willing to put in the effort to change that course.

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So continue against the current and continue fighting even as the time to eliminate the threat passes quickly—is that what you are suggesting?

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It's foolish to ask for specific guidance in a vaguely described situation.

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It is also foolish to indulge all your secrets to those you hardly know.

I nothing if not such a fool already.

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Being aware of that much puts you ahead of many, at least.

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Do you really think so? Should something happen, I am all the more liable for it because I acknowledged that foolishness yet carried on anyway.

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Then choose to do otherwise.

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Choose to be a fool and search for a solution?

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Perhaps. That part is up to you.

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If I knew I had more time, then maybe.

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Unfortunately, no one can ever know that, here or elsewhere.

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Perhaps not. But the present is now, and the future coming no matter what happens.

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On that we can agree.

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Then I suppose I'll have to endure these fears in the meantime. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my grievances.