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002 ☆ voice;
[They will argue about moral choices until the city burns away. The choices here are ugly, and knowing the outcome regardless of their actions makes them uglier.
She never does this. Oriko has always believed that action is better than telling. People don't listen to soothsayers; truths must be learned on their own time. Never once has she simply come forward with information like this - everything was a speech, a story, a revelation, pulling threads and nudging.
She sounds, frankly, cold. Detached, but hoarse.]
What I have to say is brief, if you will hear it.
Here is what is going to happen:
There is no conceivable escape for Exiles at the shoreline. The fate they will meet there is no different. Guns wait for them, and death.
Don't send them down there indiscriminately, rashly, unless you send them knowing that.
She never does this. Oriko has always believed that action is better than telling. People don't listen to soothsayers; truths must be learned on their own time. Never once has she simply come forward with information like this - everything was a speech, a story, a revelation, pulling threads and nudging.
She sounds, frankly, cold. Detached, but hoarse.]
What I have to say is brief, if you will hear it.
Here is what is going to happen:
There is no conceivable escape for Exiles at the shoreline. The fate they will meet there is no different. Guns wait for them, and death.
Don't send them down there indiscriminately, rashly, unless you send them knowing that.
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You don't intend to acquiesce.
[So many here are trying, toeing that line between grudging resistance and rebellion. Oriko finds the world difficult to let go of herself; she has always loathed to reconcile with inevitability, her warning a clawing attempt to circumvent it - one inevitability out of many.]
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[It's even, far more collected than he is, really. He's a mess, but there's a certain serenity in having a goal so firm.]
Are you going up?
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[She has to see this path paved, though she understands the astronomical cost.]
If there's panic and rash decisions [there will be] I'll see to that, first.
I must see what to do about the coast.
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If you have any ideas that need my kind of help--let me know, all right?
[She'll know what he means. His magic is the only thing that can help people now. He'll use it until he no longer can, if he has to.]
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If they are to escape from this fate they need also have the means to survive beyond.
[Is that something his magic, specifically, can conjure? The opportunity?]
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[A beat.]
Not on my own, anyway. If they're not worrying about being gunned down, then--the rest is going to be on them. [How and where, exactly, he could be best applied, well. He can think of a few places, and with help...]
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[As have they.
If she's onto what he's thinking, Oriko has yet to say.]
It sounds to me like damning them for their bravery -- or fear.
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[He'd been perfectly serious--he wasn't any kind of wilderness survival expert.]
But there are a whole bunch of Transports out there, and a lot of them are angry. One of those angry Transports might be better at the whole camping thing. [A small, bitter sound that might have been a laugh.] I'm good at violence, Oriko. Point me, and I'll take care of it.
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...If there's an opening in their patrols we may be able to find it.
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[That part, he thinks, is important to reiterate.]
I can't think of a better dream team. [That rings false. He can think of at least two. But for this--] I can kick a gap open, if it comes to that.
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Let's try to avoid it, for the time. [She has agents of force, already, guilty as she feels about using them.] That violence would have its consequences, too.
[She's no qualms with doing damage, a muted and dying raging against the inevitable fate of the city here, but drawing attention to such a gap would only close it, not open it. She's interested in opening.[
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[He's not much for long-term plans. He's best at taking care of what's in front of him. But he can see how she thinks, in flashes.
He shifts topics as his posture shifts, his arms dropping into his cardigan pockets.] How much does seeing this take out of you? [He'll have to learn to plan for it, to account for it, the way he's learned to account for Nitoh's weaknesses.]
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Nothing she's seen has been worse than that first moment, the horror she will never forget. Oriko knows that true helpless terror.]
I try never to give it lease enough to let it get there.
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Not what I asked.