Conversation Space: The Ultimate

[powersthatbe]

You feel as if you've stepped through a door.

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[adastraea]

"We are all different, yes. Some of us are quite fond of mortals. Some do not care for mortals outside of their entertainment. I do not think I would call myself particularly fond, not like Orlea or ROSE, but I do not dislike you. But my idiom perforce dictates I remain neutral about many things.

"We all act according to our idiom."

[carbonatedscientist]

Sento frowns slightly. "I've found that neutrality doesn't do much in some cases--you're forced to pick a side." Not that he appreciates the times that's happened.

"How many of you are there?"

[adastraea]

"Sometimes," she agrees. "But my neutrality is important to me. As for our number, it is seventeen now."

[carbonatedscientist]

"The rest of us don't always have the luxury of remaining neutral." Sento thinks a moment. "And by picking people, you're effectively making people take a side, and that in and of itself is not a neutral action."

And there's something else that's caught his attention, too. "Seventeen now...so you started with a different number."

[adastraea]

"With twenty-one."

[carbonatedscientist]

"What happened to the others?" Sento is not sure that he'll like the answer.

[adastraea]

"They died," she says, simply.

[carbonatedscientist]

"I'm sorry." Because Sento doesn't really know what else you say to something like that.

[adastraea]

"I am too," she says, tiredly.