032915KateMerrow

[06:25] TA: Sorry about that.

 [06:25] AA: it's fin. you probably could have managed it without saying anything and i would not have even noticed.

 [06:26] TA: I suppose I could have left and come right back without even saying anything, but I think it is good for people to be concious of my movements like that.

 [06:27] TA: If only to be mindful of the fact that I am in a completely different state of mind right now.

 [06:27] TA: What were we talking about?

 [06:27] AA: tactics and leadership mostly.

 [06:27] AA: and whether or not to trust your frond samantha.

 [06:28] TA: Yes. I still have yet to talk to her about all of this.

 [06:28] TA: Though I am sure she will understand.

 [06:28] AA: are you, too, scared of her?

 [06:28] TA: No.

 [06:29] TA: Because unlike most of the team, I am the hardest to catch, and the hardest to escape from.

 [06:29] TA: Though Jack is an obvious exception to that.

 [06:29] AA: if you say so.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:30] TA: Should she decide to attack me, I would be able to escape.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:30] AA: do you think she is likely to do so?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:30] TA: No.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:30] AA: i would have thought the space player would have been able to escape easily as whale.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:30] TA: But these days one cannot be too careful.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:31] TA: From... what I understand.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:31] TA: He overstayed.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:31] TA: Had he left a moment sooner, he may have survived.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:31] TA: I intend to avoid conflict altogether.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:32] AA: conflict cannot alwaves be avoided forever.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:32] AA: but discretion is the better part of valor when it can perhaps.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:33] TA: Either way, I do not think it will come to that.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:33] AA: you still have faith in her after all of this.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:33] TA: Only because I do not think she does it on her own.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:33] AA: her ability to inspire trust is impressive, i will give her that. even i wish i could trust her the way miloko and acenia and even you do.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:34] AA: she seams so trustworthy on the surface.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:34] AA: the horntaker was like that too.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:34] TA: did she break your trust?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:36] AA: after we neutralized balish, or temporarily neutralized him, she was distraught and looking for a way to cure him. her son proposed the dissection of lily mavico for better understanding of twink stims, and as he was acting as her subordinate, i can only assume she considered it an option.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:36] AA: otherwise he would not have used it as a threat against me for failing to divulge information about the method of attack. information which i did not have anyway.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:37] AA: and of course the horntaker even now appears to still be devoted to balish, after all that has happened.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:41] TA: If anything, she has a, perhaps unhealthy, penchant for devotion.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:41] AA: perhaps.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:41] TA: This news troubles me, though.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:41] TA: Even if she is an alternate universe version of Sami.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:42] AA: i have not sean her since we entered the game. so i have been unable to hear her own explanation for her actions.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:42] AA: maybe she had a reason for it that i am not seaing. but after presenting herself as an advocate for the players, a confidant, it was a crushing realization to sea where we reelly stood for her.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:43] TA: I struggle to believe she would see you all as simply a means to an end.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:43] AA: perhaps.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:43] TA: I think the most pertinent thing for me to do now would be to talk to Sami.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:43] AA: and maybe i am being unfair to young samantha. lily had assured me that she was trustworthy. but even lily seams to have lost that trust now.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:44] AA: it is just hard to forget that a person with her same name, her same face, and even an almost identical personality, took me in once before.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:47] AA: shell, i believe i even saw her in commander heston's offishe this morning on my way to the commissary, with the door open in the same way the horntaker kept it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:47] TA: Losing the Ark has made some of us... improvise.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:48] AA: it is fin. i am not offended by that. i do not know where all the adults have gone, but it has been long enough now that i think reclaiming the space is justifiable.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:49] AA: and it only makes sense that your doppelgangers might have similar tastes or needs to yourselves.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:49] TA: Eerilly so.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:49] AA: i am merely commenting on the difficulty in seaing your frond as not the horntaker.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:50] TA: Perhaps at some point you may meet her and learn otherwise. ((lol))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:50] AA: which is disturbing enough as it is. it would be like a human having to meet the "boogeyman."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:51] AA: at least i believe that's what you call the monster you use to scare unruly children into obedience, yes?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:52] TA: Yes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:52] TA: Though.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:52] TA: His description was... nonexistant.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:53] AA: our is more or less the first generation where young trolls were raised by other trolls, rather than lusii. i suppose we adopted the horntaker that way because she was easy to use in that way.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:53] TA: Perhaps so. I am fairly unfamiliar with your iteration.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:53] AA: there are probably not many non-trolls in the universe responsible for the death of more trolls than the horntaker.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:54] AA: do not take that as a point of villainy. it was a war. this is expected.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:54] AA: commander aggaro shorely brought about the deaths of at least as many humans as heston brought about deaths of trolls.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:55] AA: but i suppose she was the first reel resistance we have ever sean.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:56] AA: i think it is safe to say that if she had not been there, earth would have been a colony of alternia long ago.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:56] TA: I think the way it turned out was positive, however.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:56] TA: In the grand scheme of things, the deaths of non-players are meaningless.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:57] AA: that is an opinion i would expect of a troll. i am surprised to hear it from a human.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:58] TA: Time gives you a unique perspective.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:59] AA: indeed. it is perhaps why tyrians have traditionally been so blase about the deaths of lower blood castes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [06:59] AA: i am told that laynne was idealistic in her youth, too. perhaps my attitude of noblesse oblige is not an anomaly, but shrimply a phase i am going through.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [07:01] TA: I do not think your care for your fellow species is any kind of weakness.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [07:01] AA: i have heard arguments in both directions.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [07:01] AA: certainly for the time being maenam's attitude has won against mine.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [07:02] AA: we shall sea whether mine pays greater long-term dividends.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [07:04] TA: In your case, I think time is on your side.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [07:05] AA: perhaps. if nothing else patience is somefin i am capable of.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [07:06] TA: Good, you'll need it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [07:06] TA: I'm going to go talk to Sami.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [07:06] AA: very whale.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [07:06] AA: good luck.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [07:07] TA: Thank you.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [07:07] TA: And you.