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[So he's figured out how this tablet works now, so started reading back a bit. One thing has mostly caught his attention, so here he is.]

A lot of you seem adamant to abstain from offering your loyalty to the initiative, which...I understand in the sense that they are strangers just as much as the United Earth.

But should the claims of their forces attempting to raid your own home world be true, it would have disastrous consequences for the people you know still there. Is that worth the risk?

Or is there something else I'm missing here?

[C'mon people, he suspects he's missed something important. Give him some deets.]

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[Ah, a subject right up his little alley. Also, nice mask there, stranger. ... He hopes that's a mask, anyway.]

They are more than strangers - they are slavers. They have used their machine to steal people from their homes and their times, and then they insist those people, their prisoners, fight for them. What choice are we given?

As for their claims... I would not think it below them to craft lies in hopes of inspiring fear and obedience. Even if what they say is true, would it not be better then to leave us to our homes, that we may defend them?

From their perspective, it actually makes more sense for us to do as they ask; should time be rewritten as they desire, the United Earth would never get the idea to invade other worlds in the first place or have the means to do so. It's two birds with one stone.

Have they forced people to take part in missions? Even those not able to defend themselves?

[A genuinely curious inquiry; he realizes he sounds a little pro-initiative right now, so he's trying to tone it down a little. His loyalty is just as removed as everyone else's, really. Maybe even moreso.]

So they say, but as with their other claims, it is difficult to believe. I have heard they have little control over the machine they use to bring people here. They do not even know who they are enslaving. How then do they presume to change history in such a way that the end result is exactly what they envision? Who is to say their meddling will not strengthen their enemies or give rise to others? Who is to say it will not have serious consequences, either for this place or for our lands? How do they know what precisely they should do to alter the past favorably, and how can they expect us to see out their plans when they assemble us at random?

... Even if they have some means of ensuring their victory, and against all odds no harm will come of it, that does not justify how they are building their army.

[There his tirade comes to a grudging end. For all that he is against the Initiative, he doesn't consider himself against those who would help them. That is their choice. But after the events of the past two weeks, he finds so much more fault in what their captors do. Griping and grumbling up a storm.]

I have only been witness to the last two missions so I cannot say for certain if they do or not. It seemed as though everyone was made to attend the missions, but I did not see the Initiative force participation in the tasks given to us. Still, many people were put at risk simply in being transported to mission locations.

[He listens through the whole response in silence, figuring all of those suspicions are well warranted by the end. From what he can tell the initiative really does seem to lack a thorough understanding of how time really works to properly alter it to their favor.]

No, you're right; forcing people to take part in this war isn't just dangerous to them, it's dangerous to the initiative as well. If the process of selection really is entirely random, it could easily draw in things too dangerous to control. Desperation could only work to further their chances to error.

But at the very least people seem content to wait it out until the machine sends them home by itself at "random". If they really don't force those who cannot fight for themselves to take up arms against their enemy, it isn't as bad as it could be. It means they have some sense of compassion, which the United Earth seem to lack.

Besides, the number of transports is far too great. Were this initiative really to think of forcing people to fight they would wind up regretting it more than likely. Even they have to be aware of that.

Not all people are content to wait.

[A relatively light statement in comparison to his aggressive ranting a moment ago. He sighs.]

And the Initiative are not without means of controlling us.

Some people are beyond control. [He'd say "LIKE ME" here, but realizes it'd sound like stupid pointless bragging, really.]

But what do you refer to? Have they tried before?

[He would have had serious doubts about that claim in the days following his arrival, but after seeing firsthand all the unnatural abilities other Transports have... Well, maybe it's not such an farfetched idea that the Initiative wouldn't be able to control everyone.]

I should hope to meet those people.

[Earnestly said. From a strictly-Assassin perspective, he finds he rather likes that beyond control line, too.]

They possess a sleeping poison.

[One of these days he'll learn the term 'sedative'. Really.]

That hardly counts. You're no use to anyone under the effects of something like that.

When you said control I was under the impression they could force others to do something against their will in a more effective manner.

No. I meant only that they are able to stop attacks against them.

I have not heard of the Initiative controlling anyone directly. At least, not yet I haven't.

[That's an especially troubling thought for him.]

According to someone else they tried, once. Apparently the one behind it was removed from their position.

[It takes him a moment to reply and when he does, his voice hisses out between his teeth.]

... Of course. Of course they did.

You seem troubled.

Past experience with this kind of thing?

Not a personal experience, no. But there are... stories, where I am from. About that kind of thing.

At the very least it seems to have stopped.

Not many people on the network appear very 'pro-initiative' which I'm sure they would have hoped to promote with any sort of mind control.

I would not be surprised if they turned to that idea again in the future. For all we know, the man they claim was responsible for the act may have only been the scapegoat of a failed attempt at taking direct control of us.

We shall see what the future brings, but I do not advise you forget their history.

Whatever it is they have planned, I'd be more concerned with myself were I you.

I can assure you their methods won't be effective against me.

How is that?

Because I can't imagine their methods were ever designed to take me into account.

Mortals of course, Angels and Demons, "Gods" or those who liken themselves to them.

But not Death.

Death.

[Last he checked death was a part of life. An inevitable and often unfortunate (though sometimes very necessary) part of life.

Not a person.]

Explain.

As I said, I am Death.

Different cultures tend to have their own concept, of course; Thanatos, The Dullahan, the Grim Reaper, Angel of Death...some even portray Death as female, although I'm not quite sure where they got that idea from.

[In his universe he's a dude, at least. Maybe it's the long hair.]

I reap the souls of the dead and send them to the afterlife.

[Reap the souls of...]

... You touched in the head?

It's of little concern whether or not you believe me.

It doesn't change anything.

No, I suppose it doesn't.

But so you know: a man's soul does not require reaping.

Oh?

What makes you say that?

It is what I know. After a man has passed, his soul departs from this world and journeys beyond on its own.

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