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[sunmon]

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[sunmon]

well, i have someone i can ask.

[morozova]

It would likely need to be someone from her world.
It appears there is some variation among the species.
Though removing a head would stop next to anything living, I imagine.

[sunmon]

but you're not removing hers.

[morozova]

Not yet.
She likely has friends that will want to save her. I doubt they will succeed, but I have been surprised before.

[sunmon]

that's a lot of assumptions to defer responsibility.

[morozova]

I prefer to think of it as saving myself from having to hurt or otherwise kill the well-intentioned friends that would get in my way.

[sunmon]

i haven't ever known that to be a reservation of yours.

[morozova]

Are you telling me to disregard the welfare of the people that would help her? That doesn't sound like you.

[sunmon]

i'm questioning your motives.

[morozova]

I want you safe.
That is my motive.

[sunmon]

not some leftover sentiment for your former dominant?
i'm no different than she is. we're both just girls you took advantage of.

[morozova]

No.
The two of you are very different.

[sunmon]

how?

[morozova]

You're more resilient than she is.
More principled.
Even at your worst I doubt you'd hurt anyone that didn't deserve it in some way.

[sunmon]

all of the things which move you to call me naive.

[morozova]

Innocent, perhaps.
Though even that doesn't really fit.

Sometimes it's easy to forget how young you are.
How it shapes the way you see the world.
That is my failing not yours.

[sunmon]

you really think i only feel this way because i'm young?
then you'll grow tired of me, as i grow cynical.

[morozova]

I think that your understanding of the world might deepen, but I also think you're much too stubborn to lose anything that's so fundamentally you.
I certainly hope so, at least.

[sunmon]

i hated this when mal did it and i hate it more that you are.

[ because something occurs to her, now, as he is kinder to her than he's ever been. more earnest and openly concerned in a way that does ring as genuine. ]

[morozova]

You do have regrettable taste in men.

[sunmon]

not anymore.
and you can't decide to care about me just because someone else has my attention now.

[morozova]

Is that what I'm doing?

[sunmon]

i recognize the feeling.

[morozova]

That wasn't my intention.

[sunmon]

no?