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I think I was already tired of useless colleagues getting rewarded for it.

Well get used to it like everything else around here that's ridiculous and unnecessary. Not everyone needs a permanent warden like some childish babysitter. Sometimes all they do is make things worse. [Or are just really annoying to the point of further contention rather than less.]

Changing isn't easy, and needing guidance - or support, or protection - isn't childish. What any given inmate needs is going to vary, though, and it sounds like no one was good enough at figuring that out with you.

...It would probably be an awful suggestion to say an inmate should get to veto their warden's deal. Especially considering I don't really have a stake in it.

It is childish when your warden acts like a naive child and is as useless as one. At the end of the day, I needed nothing but to wait for the bastard entity to grow tired of his own charade.

[Keep telling yourself that, Butcher.]

Then I suggest no one get a deal and we all go home.

[Because he's definitely not sticking around for nothing and he doesn't believe any of this is actually needed.]

Edited 2025-04-14 15:23 (UTC)

You really don't think you've changed at all?

No, I haven't. And if this place has taught me anything it's that there's no reason to once I'm back in my own space.

Then why stick around for a deal?

Because I'm selfish and don't want to immediately become some other bastard entity's plaything upon leaving. Leaving here isn't an option until that false god is destroyed by this worse false god.

[If this was audio this is where the scoff would be.]

Did you expect something else for an answer? Pathetic.

If I already had an answer in mind I'd just talk to myself.

Do you know what the consequences will be, when you get rid of this god?

It's not a god. It will die. Like everything does in the end.

Does it matter if it's a god, if it needs to be stopped?

Now you're just waxing philosophical for no reason.

You really don't think this is a question I've had to think about practically?

I don't know a damn thing about you. So, no, I don't know what you think of in your spare time nor particularly care considering it has no bearing on me.

We've spoken about devils. About what it means to serve a god who does more harm than good.

I could ask the Admiral for the same thing, and I've wondered more than once if I should.

That's your world and your problem.

I'd just kill it and get it over with. The rest doesn't matter to me.

It wouldn't bother you, breaking the world accidentally? The world you're intending to live in?

I'm not saying that's what it would do, just - to keep that kind of possibility in mind. Talk to people who could know, or who could find out. Plan for the worst.

It's not going to break the world to end something that shouldn't exist in the first place. They're unnatural creatures, not actual gods.

[He absolutely will not ask anyone who "could know" about it because he doesn't like them for ridiculing his own beliefs and being absolute bastards about it.]

[ His impulse is to argue. Then he takes a second, and looks at it objectively. ]

I don't mean to interrogate you about this. It's just that - in my world there are creatures like that, too. Aberrations, as opposed to something celestial, or fiendish, or fae. I can sense the difference, and it's...very important, for whatever plans you're making.

It has gone very, very badly when people haven't listened. But you're not any soldier of mine, and your world has its own rules.

I'm just...concerned, about removing a piece of it, even if it shouldn't have been there to start with. The Admiral's interference isn't natural, either.

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