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Research Tower | 7:41 AM | Third Day
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very uneasy, to be quite honest. I''m not sure what the responsible action to take is."
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off when set alongside one another. They could all technically be true, but it felt like trying to jam puzzle pieces together just because the colors match, when the shape itself is wrong.
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some people always see themselves as the exception to the rule."
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regaled with a rant about how terribly incompetent everyone else was for allowing this to have happened."
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Because she can say so many words without answering any questions. She was a lot smoother about it than Linos was, too.
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getting to the crux of it." She crossed her arms. "In short, rather than evacuating outright, Zeno believes the breakthrough that was achieved in the underground yesterday evening is too great to abandon to whomever is behind what is happening. He believes that we ought to disable the lockdown and secure control of the administrative core, the security office, and the entrance to that place, then call for help."
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Seven. Saci is experienced with using the Power to fight.
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I don''t know. Our quarters are in the main building, so I''m hoping we might find her if we make our way there. The only reason I''m here is because I was helping the professor with a task before everything began.
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that supposed to mean?"
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cowardice," she said, as if this was a self evident truth. "No one should ever be compelled to cast away their life for the greater good, but sometimes one is called forth to gamble it by sheer mathematics of the conscience. If no one had fought against the royal family during the Tricenturial War, we''d all be living in an authoritarian dystopia, and I should hope you don''t think I''m yearning for that. And in this case, we''re talking about something that could hypothetically save trillions of years of aggregate human life."
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anything to spend a minute with that machine. It''s worth more than the order itself. Even if it couldn''t be replicated, this facility could be converted into a production line that could restore thousands of people a day to perfect youth. More, probably, if it could be optimized for groups rather than individuals."
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weird- to connect with the pneuma properly. Even if the rest of the body being fresh could make the brain a bit younger too, it still wouldn''t affect that."
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easy position for her to hold, since she''s currently the only person alive to have received the treatment that''s at stake. But it isn''t as though I can blame her being afraid, after what happened to Bardiya."
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Right. I was on the mark, after all.
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still don''t really get it. Ezekiel''s eyes were bulging like his brains were gonna roll out of his ears."
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designed that thing. ''Intellectual'' or not, it''s a distraction for him, even though there are people for whom this sort of thing is gravely important."
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potentially Ophelia. Or any witch who has that specific sort of bad luck."
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anyway," Zeno said, switching back to the more flippant speech pattern they seemed to adopt when in this persona, "we''ve spent enough time here being sitting ducks. We need to get moving before whoever is doing this pulls one over on us."
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A divine beast...
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torn open from the inside.
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meant to notice. Suddenly, it was a full-blown splatter again, veering distinctly to the side.
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Moment-Emulating Arcana. I had to wonder if all this redundancy - multiple barriers, multiple divinations - was going to lead to us running out of eris. Obviously, everyone was afraid of being stabbed in the back, but the best tactic against a party as big as ours would be a war of attrition. And on that front, it was worrying.
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