Tenth Unused Utility Belt | Video

[hellofist]

People keep showing up, with memories... that don't match up. Happening a lot, lately. Guess it happens... all the time, but... seems like more, now.

[Cass stops a second, not looking into the feed but at something past the comm, jaw clenching and relaxing as she thinks.]

Know I did... something. Or... something happened, to me. Made me... someone people don't like? Or are scared of. Don't know.

[It's a little terrifying, to talk to Tim and see him be relieved she's not whatever she becomes in his future.]

I guess, want advice. Want to know... if you did something... bad, or wrong, would you... want to know? Want someone... to tell you, so you could stop? Or just... let it happen, hope you... do right things?

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Private

[hellofist]

What if... you didn't trust yourself?

Re: Private

[love_slave]

Why don't you trust yourself?

Private

[hellofist]

Killed once already. They say... first one's hardest, easier after that. What if... that's true?

Private

[love_slave]

I told you about Kai, didn't I?

He's made to kill. But he doesn't want to. He's never wanted to. He's killed many, but it's never gotten easier. He was used for it. His body was redesigned for it.

I don't think you want to kill any more than Kai would.

Private

[hellofist]

[She can't help it, her eyes go wide before she looks away and her jaw gets tight all over again. That was her path, before she ran from her father. She would be Kai if she hadn't run away, if she had been caught again.]

How does... he live, with that? How can he... keep going?

Re: Private

[love_slave]

He said once that in the light universe, he had been darkness. Perhaps in the dark zone, he could be light. [She's smiling a little to herself because she had thought that was very brave of him.]

Private

[hellofist]

Wish he was here, for you.

Private

[love_slave]

I wish he was here for everyone.

As dangerous as he was- he was better at keeping people safe. He was very good at it.

Private

[hellofist]

Could you... go back? Visit him, then come back here?

Re: Private

[love_slave]

I'm like the inmates. I died before I came here. There-

[It wasn't pretty. She knew she was dying, falling apart at a cellular level.]

I can't go back. But he told me to find a good home, so that's what I'll try to do.