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[h2no]

i'm not either?

[d33tached]

[Well, this is awkward.]

Is there anything else you would like to know?

[Since we're talking, I guess???]

[h2no]

two actually
first is anyone from the dictatorship present here?
second
why?

[d33tached]

Not to my knowledge, no.

[Though, thanks for the paranoia spike, Archie.]

What do you mean "why"?

[h2no]

[ITS ALWAYS BEST TO KNOW!!!]

just
why anything
why was it like that
why did they do that to you

u asked for this tl;dr

[d33tached]

[Why? That question brings about a certain bitterness that almost has D33 laughing at his comm..

[Why. This isn't the first time he's been asked, but he stopped asking himself that question a long time ago. There had been a number of answers given, of course - they were God's "chosen people". Their trials would lead to divinity and safety. The outside world was toxic and decaying and they were being kept safe and strong underground.

[Then there was the real answer - the more practical answer, anyway. That Royce needed an army to carry out his schemes. That the numbers themselves may as well have been running that decaying world with all of the influence R01 had over it.

[But neither of those answers will satisfy what Archie is trying to ask. Why? Because they were numbers and they were meaningless. Because no God cared for them, real or false. Because Royce Montgomery was a bored child with an army of toys to play with at his leisure.

[There was no reason. There is no reason, for those that D33 has left behind. Pure, unadulterated, human cruelty is the only real answer. But "just because" hardly seems worth saying.]

I don't know.

I suppose it doesn't really matter.

i love it

[h2no]

it kind of does
but i won't press

<3

[d33tached]

I am afraid that I simply don't have an answer for you in that regard.

That is simply how things are where I came from.

We were not raised to question such things.

[And severely punished if they chose to do so anyway.]

[h2no]

yeah i'd imagine if it was a dictatorship you wouldn't have been encouraged to questioned things
sorry dee

[d33tached]

I have no interest in sympathy.

You've nothing to apologize for.

[h2no]

i'm not offering sympathy
i'm just saying sorry where i feel it necessary

[d33tached]

It isn't necessary.

I will ask that you've kept what we've discussed between us, Archie. Can I trust you to do so?

[h2no]

yeah
even if i had an interested in airing your dirty laundry, who would i even tell?
anyway
i promise

[d33tached]

Very well, then.

[Wait for it.]

I thank you.

[h2no]

its fine
at least you got a chance to have a new life here

[d33tached]

It certainly is a different one.

[He's not gonna give you the satisfaction of saying you're right, but he knows it's true.]

[h2no]

maybe it's the one you deserve, dee

[d33tached]

[Ow.]

I can't tell whether that's meant to be a compliment or an insult.

[h2no]

you have relatively free access to the world and can pursue whatever you want
it's not a compliment so much as an observation of the basic freedom a person deserves to have

[d33tached]

[D33 really doesn't know what to say to that. He's never stopped to consider that he might "deserve" anything - if he did, it probably wasn't anything good. After all, D33 has never really been one to try to deny what he's done - at least not to himself.

[As if people ever actually get what they deserve anyway, D33 thinks.]

It's different, as I've said.

It has its value.

I don't deserve anything.

[h2no]

you sure as shit shouldn't have that knife you little fucker

[d33tached]

What are you talking about?

What does my knife have to do with any of this?

[h2no]

its a joke
because im still mad about you pulling it on niko

[d33tached]

It's been months.

When exactly are you going to let this go?

[h2no]

probably never