lightduties: (are they tangentially related?)
Rhea'li Akhbala ([personal profile] lightduties) wrote in [community profile] magisteriatxt 2024-10-02 05:02 am (UTC)

[Showing her they were trustworthy... People often trusted him easily enough, but he's not sure showing his memories would help with that. Even if he set aside the ones he would be more willing to show, they are... complicated, difficult to unsnarl from the violence experienced across his lifetime. Personally, he feels the less people know about him the more willing they are to talk.]

I see...

[There's something he could offer that is... less personally connected to him. And given what he's heard of Magisteria and its concerns over other stars, it would be more comforting in a different manner.]

In my world of origin, I learned all other worlds fell to despair. Worlds that self-destructed from war and plague. Highly advanced civilisations that ceased to function when they had destroyed all their enemies. Societies that learned the end was inevitable and decided life was pointless.

Until my arrival here, I thought mine own world- [And the burgeoning one he, Jammingway and the remnants of Ultima Thule had cultivated] was the only one still full of life.

[He has a complicated smile on his face, half hidden by the bad camera angle.]

...'Tis heartening to know that Magisteria and so many other worlds exist and are continuing to live.

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