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[buildstherobots]

[Phone call! To the whole town! Except the drones and the usual meddling authority figures. The call is in a moderately hushed tone, but he's easily understandable.]

So, I see that there are many new people, and you may count yourselves as lucky as you can in this place because Dist the Rose is here to take care of you all. I'm sure you've been informed as to the basics of Mayfield, but I've put together a lovely little primer for just this kind of occasion, giving you all of the details you need to bring you fully up to speed, including the most important things that have been inflicted upon us since the first of us can remember arriving here. If you would like to be informed, then come to the library to pick up a copy. If you can't find it, ask any drone where it is, they'll be able to tell you. Look for a gorgeous man with pale hair; someone as extraordinary as myself will stand out.

[And, just a little louder but no so much so that he's quite up to normal talking level.]

And be sure to pick up your free library card! Knowledge is power and all that.

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[And there Dist will be, flitting about, stacking things and shelving things and generally keeping himself busy. He'll also be available to assist anyone who just so happens to be in the library themselves, though every so often he'll have to stop and sit to rest a bit, possibly get down a granola bar outside the view of the head librarian. He can't fit his chair through the door, let alone down the aisles of books, so he's walking everywhere and carrying things and with his condition this tires him out quickly.]

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[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

I didn't say I agreed. I said that saying you want what's best is meaningless.

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[lunawolves10th.livejournal.com]

"I disagree, but we're clearly very different people."

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[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

I've heard it too many times from too many people wanting too many different things to take it seriously any more.

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[lunawolves10th.livejournal.com]

"Cynicism will kill you as dead as a bolter will, eventually."

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[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

So what do you suggest?

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[lunawolves10th.livejournal.com]

"Find something worth believing in. Even if it's just yourself."

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[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

...You don't know what you're talking about. There's nothing left!

[lunawolves10th.livejournal.com]

"That's a foolish way to think."

[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

You don't know me. You don't know what you're talking about.

[lunawolves10th.livejournal.com]

"Possibly. Are you entirely dead to hope, then?"

[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

My best friend killed the closest thing I ever had to a mother. When he recreated her, she went insane and had to be sealed away in a cave. We spend years trying to perfect the process, trying to learn how to give a replica the personality and memories of an original, so we could have our Professor back and undo that mistake. Then, one day, he abandons me and the project for no reason and chases me out of the country.

[His tone is rising; he no longer cares that he's in a library and will probably be reprimanded for shouting later.]

The next chance I get to pick it up is by a megalomaniac who wants to kill everyone in the world. But, you know what? I don't care! Because then my life's work won't have come to nothing. He's the one who thought he wanted what's best, by the way; replace the population with replicas of their originals to break a prophesy people seem incapable of deviating from. Of course he's stopped, I'm tossed in jail by the man who killed my professor, I figure out that everything I'd worked for was impossible and a waste of my time, and then I'm brought here, to be tortured and humiliated at will!

So you tell me! What's left for me to hope for?!

[lunawolves10th.livejournal.com]

"Forgiveness. You have a chance to forgive yourself, and the people that hurt you."

[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

Why should I forgive them? They have absolutely no remorse for the things they did to me. I might, if they apologize.

Forgiving myself? That doesn't even make sense.

[lunawolves10th.livejournal.com]

"You told me yourself you did an awful thing. Don't you have even a little regret for it?"

[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

Awful is a matter of opinion. And that isn't the point; are you saying I shouldn't regret it, or I should?

[lunawolves10th.livejournal.com]

"I'm saying you probably should, make amends, do what you can hear, and learn to live. I appreciate the losses you have had in your life, I've lost everything too, and I will likely die upon return to my own time, but bitterness won't solve anything here. I'm not saying you should run around all smiles and joy... just try not to dwell on what you've lost, think about what you can salvage, and do."