asgardeventide | 003

[Samantha opted, when setting up the feed, to go with voice only. She still looked like hell, and she didn't need anyone seeing or asking stupid questions. It wasn't their business. But, after speaking to Conan, she'd resolved that it was time to stop trying to hide from this place any further. When she spoke, her voice had a tired quality to it, but was still strong.]

So, Asgard.

I wanted to discuss something with those of you who will still speak with me right now. These powers that we have. Most of the people I see seem to think of them as a good thing, a blessing of sorts, or at least they partially make up for the tricks you had in your homeworlds. Right.

Here's the thing I wanted to talk about. Most I've spoken to seem to think of these powers as something that's being used to help other people around here, or to protect people that can't protect themselves. How do you people handle the fact that any of them can be abused, misused or mishandled? What do people around here do to prepare themselves to be protected if those powers get used for the wrong reasons? I've been thinking a lot lately about how people could protect themselves from some of these powers, and it worries me.

Not all of us are nice people, you know.

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Well, even if you're not so keen on your own world, there are thousands of others we're helping by being here. To be completely honest, I'd stay just to save one. Any one. It wouldn't even have to be my own, though, that's a definite mark in the 'Pros' column for me.

It's just if I can do that without having to sign embarassing songs, hugging strangers, or exploding, I'll be much happier.

Agreed on the not exploding thing. Dying's a bitch, though that at least would be fast. Messy and freaky as hell, but fast. There's advantages to fast.

Personally, though, I'm not good at the whole hero thing. I can't sit idly by if someone's in trouble. That'd be monstrous, but at the same time I have trouble understanding helping a world I don't even know exists for sure. It's... too distant to understand properly, if that makes sense. Sounds great in theory, but I don't work in theory too much.

Yeah - fast is a definite plus in a situation like that.

I don't even think it's like a Hero thing. I mean, the only people who will ever know what we're doing are the people who are here. The people on most of these worlds have no idea they're in danger, and have no idea who we are, what we're doing, or anything. So, if we win, life goes on for them completely uninterrupted and no-one's any the wiser except the few hundred of us who got picked to help out. I don't need to have seen or even heard of those worlds to know that they need to be saved. I mean, there's billions of lives on each one - I understand that well enough and that's all that matters in the end.

I... have trouble being that noble, but in the end that isn't what's going to matter. We're right up in front of the fight one way or another, so we've got to figure something out. I'll make do, even if it's not that much of a cheering thing to think in those terms for me.

I'm not really sure if it's that noble. It's just what needs to be done. Besides. Not doing it would make us complicit in the deaths of trillions - I'd kinda like to be able to sleep at night, you know? Haha!

I think, maybe, that's why we see things differently here a little bit. I've already got plenty of blood on my hands that I didn't deal out personally, but that my hands dished out. I already have trouble sleeping, but if me saving the world's the same as me fighting what's in front of me, then I suppose it's going to have us on the same side, eh?

Our pasts definitely inform our perspectives. You're right about that, yes. But it's OK - We are on the same side, no matter what our reasoning is.

Yep. We are definitely on the same side, at that. I don't see any reason to side with the other side of the town's walls. I'll definitely say that.

There is that. I don't really know much about the other places. I know some people travelled to another city recently but I haven't heard much about it.

Utgard. I've been there to start some forms processing. It's really high tech. Lots of traders there. Real easy to get lost. From what I've heard, they're sort of neutral, but the guy in charge isn't exactly a fan. We're really outsiders over there.

Oh? Forms for what? That's cool that you got to see the place - when you say Hi Tech, do you mean like more modern? I mean, we have TVs and Fridges and stuff here, sure. But it's not exactly Star Trek levels of technology.

More advanced than modern, but not space-age. It's definitely more advanced than what you and I might have seen in a normal earth, and there's a fair amount of strange and surreal stuff around it. All kinds of people going around, a lot of them not human.

I'm getting a license to traffic and use some of the local herbs. There's apparently ones with magical properties. You have to take a test first.

Oh wow - that's so cool! I've got to go and see it for myself some time. And that's neat that you're getting a license for something like that - any particular reason?

I'm an herbalist and pharmacologist over at the Yakuzen Clinic. I don't like not having access to all that's available. There's some stuff I want to experiment with.

Oh! Oh, I see. You work with my friend Dr. Watson. I'll probably see you there at some point soon, then.

I'm usually in the Pharmacy, fussing with the stock, re-organizing or prepping the medicine. I don't leave it too much, but I'm easy to find there.

Sure - I'll make it a point to say Hi.

[She was eventually going to see his prescriptions, then. Or notice that his visits to the clinic were regular as clockwork. He was unsure about what to do with that thought, though, he'd cross the bridge when it was in front of him.]

[There were healthy odds she'd already seen them. Samantha, however, was the sort to rarely ask questions about these sorts of things. Much like her own 'problems,' if it wasn't staring her in the face, drooling and growling, then she didn't care to nose around where people didn't offer information.]

I'll look forward to it, Hisao. Sorry for all the confusion.

You have nothing to apologise for. I'll see you later. Take care, OK?

You as well, Hisao. [-click-]

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