text; un: pillar of the heavens

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I don't know much about this place or how these things work, but there was talk about leaving a while ago, and now we're staying for a bit, but we're gonna leave eventually. After all those smart people figure out how to cure all these folks.



We're taking one of those robots with us, right? Maybe a few? They look like they'd be useful.
Maybe of the dragons, too. That one lady has a dragon, so it wouldn't be that weird.

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What's the difference?

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One is right of conscience. The other, right of rule.

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Does the difference matter, when it involves people?

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Black and white are not so starkly drawn.

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So some people in power might not be terrible, is that what you're saying?

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And compromise is unavoidable in rule.

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Some compromises shouldn't be, though.

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May you forever stand with justice and live with no regrets.

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Too late for that, Senior. But others have honored that.

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You are yet young.

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And you're so ancient? Plenty of young people fuck up.

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Few irredeemably.

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"Few" implies some.

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You think your circumstance so especial?

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I know they are.

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( As children are wont to. )

In the way of men, young.

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[ he's not really a child but he's not going to admit that ]

What if a youth did commit atrocities?

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Fault of the father. Neglect of the teacher.

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No father, so that's probably to blame. Shizun did the best he could with me. It's no fault of his I turned out the way I did.

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...an orphan?

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No father, my mother died when I was four. So yeah, I suppose.

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Apologies. Loss found you young.

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It's all in the past.

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Hurt is lone survivor.

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But a survivor.