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[onblackwings]

[ This lady's looking a little different, for anyone that's spoken with her before. Not any older, but there's a sort of crooked quality to her nose, like it'd been broken and healed some time ago. She's lounging in the Initiative apartments, looking like she's recently made friends with a superiority complex. ]

I want to speak to those of you who have seen a war before. Not the skirmishes that the Initiative sends us on here, but actual war.

And failing that, I'll take anyone that knows magic — and can teach it. That part is important. Don't waste my time if all you can do is cast it.

Comments

[onblackwings]

Most people aren't strong enough to play those games.

[motherofnemesis]

I think we have pretty different definitions of strength.

[onblackwings]

What's yours, then? My definition wins wars easily enough to make light of them.

[motherofnemesis]

Mine doesn't involve people who think death is fun. That's not strength at all.

[onblackwings]

Then tell me what is.

[motherofnemesis]

[ a long pause ] The person who keeps standing even when it doesn't look like there's any chance.

[onblackwings]

That isn't strength, it's idiocy.

[motherofnemesis]

[ wow Khisanth way to call her an idiot ]

Like I said. Different definitions, obviously.

[onblackwings]

If you keep standing when it's hopeless, then you won't be fighting again on another day, with better odds. I fail to see how that's anything but stupid.

[motherofnemesis]

Better odds on another day aren't always an option.