113014-Erisio-Sami

 -- gardeningCatastrophe [GC] began pestering arcaneArtisan [AA] at 02:20 --

 [02:22] GC: Erisio walks up to Sami. "Uh hey Sami, can we talk?"

 [02:23] AA: Sami turns to Erisio with a weary look, looking like she hasn't slept. "Yeah. Sure. Fine. Talk. I can talk."

 [02:25] GC: "Uh, Lily told me to tell you she didn*t, and won*t.. *do it*, with the guy who gave her eyes? But are you ok, you look.. not rested"

 [02:26] AA: "It's fine. I'm fine. I've gone way longer than this without sleep before. Night terrors, y'know."

 [02:26] AA: She doesn't sound fine though.

 [02:27] GC: "Look I*m like, oblivious to the max and I can tell you are not fine"

 [02:28] AA: Sami sighs and breaks a little. "Okay, no, I'm not fine. But I'm working through it."

 [02:28] GC: "do you want some help?"

 [02:29] AA: "That's sweet Erisio, but it's not something you can fix. I don't even know for sure if it's something all of us can fix, working together."

 [02:30] AA: "I've got to get all the veterans together to talk about the Jack situation, and then I've got to figure out how we're supposed to survive this, and then I might even end up having to pester him..." she sighs, looking a little scared.

 [02:30] AA: "...and that might just remind him I'm alive and make him decide to come after me or my loved ones again."

 [02:32] GC: "Well, didn*t you say you beat him once? What*s keeping you from trying that again?"

 [02:33] AA: "We barely managed to survive the first time. And we lost Beau in the process."

 [02:33] AA: "And I think the only reason we survived that time was because he underestimated us and didn't prepare as much as he should have."

 [02:33] GC: "I know it seems hopeless, and that every path is dark, but I*m sure there*s something you can do that won*t end in anything bad"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:33] AA: "Now that he knows to take us seriously..."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:33] GC: "Hell, how do you know he still plans to kill you all?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:34] AA: "I don't. But I can't afford to assume he won't, eventually."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:37] GC: "Well, maybe you have to look at things from a new perspective. He might be back, but so are you! And so is Maenam, and Doir, and you have a whole bunch of new players to help you!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:37] GC: "Maybe I*m too optimistic, but I don*t think you should declare the game lost before we*ve even started"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:38] AA: "I don't intend to lose. But I can't afford to not make every preparation against him."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:39] GC: "Well, you should probably still sleep"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:39] AA: "I will. Just as soon as I stop remembering what happened last time I went to sleep while Jack was alive."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:42] GC: "Uh, I know this might sound really bad once it comes out of my mouth, but as the thief of mind, I might be able to take away that memory..."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:42] AA: "Thanks for the offer. But then you would have to deal with it."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:43] AA: "I've got callouses. I can deal with it. You shouldn't take that sort of thing on unless you have no other choice."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:45] GC: "Oh ok"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:48] GC: "I*m sorry Sami, it must suck to have to carry those burdens"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:49] GC: "I wish I could help"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:49] AA: "It's okay. I've had five years to adjust to it."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:49] AA: "I'm not the same person I was when this all started."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:53] GC: "I guess I won*t be either"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:54] AA: "Yeah, probably not. But don't worry. It's not only in painful ways or bad ways."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:56] GC: "Sami, can I ask you a bit of an out of the blue question, before I go?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:56] AA: "Sure, go ahead."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:57] GC: "When you*re in a situation, where there*s someone you care about and they*re doing something that might end badly, but stopping them would hurt them a lot, what should you do?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:58] AA: Sami looks like she's about to answer, then slumps down a bit, and sighs, looking pitiful.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:00] AA: "I don't know."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:01] GC: "S-Sorry, did I hit too close to home?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:01] AA: "You don't know the number of times I've been asked to make that choice. And I still haven't figured out the right answer."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:04] GC: "It definitely is a hard choice isn*t it... I guess I have to get going then... Sami make sure to get some sleep, ok?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:05] AA: Sami's halfway to dozing off before you leave the room, but starts awake as you leave.