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Post by Teja on May 7, 2019 16:17:54 GMT -5
Teja laughed in a horrible throaty way that threatened she might cry, even as she willed herself not to.
"Surely, anything - even that - is preferable to global annihilation..."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on May 7, 2019 16:21:09 GMT -5
"That's what I tell myself every night before I try to sleep," Veidt said darkly. "Jon was... a great friend of mine, and at times a great assistance when I was in need. I regret that it ended this way."
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Post by Teja on May 7, 2019 16:45:42 GMT -5
"Half a lifetime thinking every problem is his to solve, all the mathematics of it, weighing some lives against others," she continued with profound sorrow and anger, "I suppose he had thought for some time he had the right to do evil things with good intentions, and it was only his sense of scale that changed."
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Post by Megan on May 7, 2019 16:49:25 GMT -5
"At least we're not all blowing ourselves up," Megan said softly.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on May 7, 2019 16:59:14 GMT -5
"Yes," Veidt said vaguely. "I suppose that is what happened."
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Post by Teja on May 7, 2019 17:00:14 GMT -5
"At least," she said bitterly. "The very least."
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Post by Loki Odinsson on May 7, 2019 18:47:49 GMT -5
"Does anybody know where he's gone off to?" Ashton cut in.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on May 7, 2019 18:49:38 GMT -5
Veidt's head lifted sharply.
"Does it really matter when he can see whatever he wants?"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on May 7, 2019 18:52:19 GMT -5
Ashton's eyebrows curved into little inverted bows of concern.
"I didn't think that was true. I thought that was rather like- well, you know. You being the smartest man in the world."
He helped himself to a glass of wine that had probably been poured for Megan but left untouched.
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Post by Megan on May 7, 2019 18:52:56 GMT -5
Megan's own brows lifted in silence.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on May 7, 2019 18:53:33 GMT -5
Veidt stared at him.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on May 7, 2019 18:54:43 GMT -5
Ashton set down the glass with a little gasp of satisfaction.
"Take it that's a no, then."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on May 7, 2019 18:55:38 GMT -5
"That's, er, the difference between enthusiastic marketing and a disquieting scientific fact, yes," Veidt conceded.
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Post by Teja on May 7, 2019 18:56:33 GMT -5
"It might not matter, but does anybody know?"
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Post by Adrian Veidt on May 7, 2019 18:58:11 GMT -5
"He was talking about going to some other galaxy, last November," Veidt sighed. "That's all I know."
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