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[offseers]

[ this is strange to do without the iris network, but it isn't hard. every network is the same after all. ]

Hello. I have a few questions, if people don't mind.

1) How does time work here? Does it pass? Do people really get older?

2) Has anyone died on a mission?

3) How old are you?

I'd really appreciate it. Thank you.

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[blackfire]

Then allow me to rephrase.

Hope is not an innate thing. It is something you must reach for. When you have nothing else, it can become the only thing within your grasp to seize.

[offseers]

So all of us, reaching for a wish.

Is that hope or desperation?

[blackfire]

（ if only he cared about shakespeare. a rose by any other name indeed. ）

What do you think?

[offseers]

I don't know yet. I'm just grasping.

[blackfire]

Then, let me know if you discover the difference.

（ it can't be something told. it can only be learned. ）

[offseers]

[ huh. ]

Even if my experiences are limited?

[blackfire]

One's experiences are always limited.

What you choose to do with them is up to you.

[offseers]

Mine are more limited than most.

What have you chosen?

[blackfire]

Between hope and desperation, or are you asking in a broader sense of my own life?

[offseers]

Whichever you think you can answer. Or willing to.

[blackfire]

（ ha. he sits with that question in contemplation a moment, and then decides to say: ）

I have chosen to be more than what I was made.

My experiences, too, were limited.

[offseers]

Can you just choose that?

Is that part of being human? That you can just choose and the world lets you?

[blackfire]

That is a complicated series of questions.

I suppose whether or not you 'can' choose depends upon your own interiority and will than anything else.

It is not a matter of being human. Sentience bears with it some degree of self-determination across many species and universes.

The world from which I hail would not have been able to facilitate the necessary growth and changes for me to have ever considered the choice to be a valid one. It is only through my time here that such a thing has become possible for me.

[offseers]

[ that makes sense. it took seeing the city to truly realize all the fundamental parts that were missing. at the time, it had seemed amazing. children who play games. partners who love each other. a place so unlike anything he had seen.

that's why he chose to hope. to save ghondor. that hope . . . still matters, right? even if mio is — even if they —

his response is simple. ]

I want that.

[ maybe it'll give him the clarity noah needs right now. to avoid being lost in his own despair and tragedy. to look at his tattoo and not think time is running out. to even reclaim his music. isn't that . . . what mio would want to? ]

[blackfire]

Then seize it for yourself.

No one will give it to you.

[offseers]

No one has given me anything. At least not like that.