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[lifetothefullest]

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[impede]

Do you think I appreciate returning to see that my partner raised a casual, if necessary concern, only for a number of adults to be up in arms and aggressive as if it needed such a response? I'm referring to your friend Nate Drake, as well as that Robert Plant imbecile.

[lifetothefullest]

I presume this is about the moon thing, though I'm not quite sure why exactly you're mad at me specifically about it.

[impede]

Truthfully, I should have made it clearer.

It's a warning. Your friend Nate will be very upset soon, if he's as sensitive as he's proved to be in the past.

[lifetothefullest]

Oh. Okay, good to know, I guess.

When did you get back?

[impede]

After the Aerie had its final curtain call.

[lifetothefullest]

What happened with that? I've only heard really vague things so far.

[impede]

We all experienced the Blue god's death in real time.

[lifetothefullest]

[Normally that's the sort of thing Lance would ask if someone wants to talk about, and he would in this case if he thought it would go anywhere, but as it is he instead decides to mention--]

I'd wondered about the pattern that seemed to exist between Zerzura and those of us that left the Aerie before you did, in that it was related to experiencing some sort of death.

[And clearly that pattern seems to have held. Not hugely shocking or anything, but it does just add the obvious conclusion about motive for why these experiences have been what they were.]

[impede]

Not everyone died in Zerzura. Did you think we all did to make it back? Even if I experienced a vision of it, I don't feel as if I died.

[He would explain why he feels that way, but he doesn't care to go on about it or give Lance any gateways into his psyche. That isn't the game they play together.]

[lifetothefullest]

No, but wasn't taking the spear what ended Zerzura? From what I was told, it sounded like the side effect of that was dying.

[He notes the comment about Akechi not feeling as though he died, but doesn't make any mention of it for now.]

[impede]

Hard to say. I wasn't anywhere near the spear. The goal with it revolved around a belief that that society could be saved.

No version of me would even begin to bother.

[Truthfully, he'd throw them all out. But he's not giving Lance that morsel yet.]

[lifetothefullest]

Of course not.

[That's so on brand he doesn't even know what else to say.]

[impede]

Would you have been a hopeful sacrificial lamb?