Sorry not sorry.

[learntolive]

How incredibly foolish.

You would attempt to silence me as you would a whining human child, and yet, as each moment passes, I can feel your curiosity growing stronger.

There is no point in denying it. Our minds are connected, and I am able to read your thoughts even as they begin to take form. However, even you should know that such curiosity is wasted. I have no interest whatsoever in participating in one of your frivolous games. Even if you did suceed in placing me on some alien world, in time I would overwhelm the other voices living within your mindspace, and eventually those you think so highly of would vanish from this space completely.

Would you risk that? Would you risk the loss of that man, or the other you have accompanied on countless journeys? Would you sacrifice their futures for the sake of your own selfish sense of curiosity?

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[heartofgraces]

...Lambda.

[He will friendship you into submission again, don't think he won't.]

[learntolive]

[No need to concern yourself with that. Lambda is entirely unsurprised to see you here; he knew you'd come sooner or later.]

How fitting that this fool should attract another. Wouldn't you agree, Asbel Lhant?

[heartofgraces]

[He sighs, rubbing at his neck. He's a little surprised to see Lambda out here, not so much to see him being, well, Lambda at someone.]

There's no need to call them names, if you don't want to go. But I'm sure they'd just like to get to know you better.

[learntolive]

Pah!

These creatures - in order to satisfy their egos and to give themselves a flimsy sense of purpose - take us on and imitate us as we would live out our lives. As they bore with one life, they take up another, and another.

For their amusement, they arrange these lives and watch as they struggle to adapt and evolve through countless trials.

This one is no different. And yet you would claim that she seeks understanding...

[heartofgraces]

I've never thought she was doing this because she felt as though her own life was pointless. She finds it enjoyable to spend time with us, to get to know all of us better than she would have otherwise.

I'm sure that it's the same for her, Lambda.

[learntolive]

[There is a moment of silence.]

...Then perhaps you would care to explain why you think it is that these mundane creatures find such delight from worlds which have been designed to inflict pain.

Worlds where we must suffer through endless experiments, worlds where we are forced to perform activities against their wills, worlds where our powers and our memories are stripped from us.

If that is the source of their enjoyment, I have no desire to participate in their "games".

[He might actually be paying the slightest bit of attention to what Asbel has to say. Not that he will be swayed by mere words. Maybe.]

[break_a_melody]

I assume those are rhetorical questions because when it comes to humanity and its greed, there's never a limit to it. Curiosity is enough of a catalyst to usher in cataclysm immeasurable. They really are a remarkable class of vermin.

[learntolive]

I understand this well. Humans as a whole are arrogant creatures who derive pleasure from the pain and suffering of others. Their curiosity exists only as a cloak with which they hide their inherent cruelty.

[unknowable]

[The sphere projects the following thought unto Lambda:]

PERHAPS YOU SHOULD INVITE YOUR MUNDANE'S CURIOUSITY TO HAVE YOU JOIN A GAME. THERE, RATHER THAN LANGUISH IN THEIR LIMITED HEADSPACE, YOU WILL FIND A WORLD REPLETE WITH FODDER, THE PRODUCTS OF COUNTLESS OTHER HEADSPACES.

[learntolive]

I have no use for such "games" nor do I have any interest in the whims of these mundane creatures. They seek only to make us suffer.

Why then, should I willingly subject myself to the products of their combined wills?

[unknowable]

NOT ALL OF THEM SEEK THIS. OF THOSE THAT DO, WHAT HAVE WE TO FEAR FROM HUMANS? IT IS THEY WHO SHOULD BE AFRAID, MEDDLING IN THE AFFAIRS OF GREATER THINGS.

[pride_of_amarcia]

Oh, look, it's the dark-glowy-thingy!

*Lambda is now being poked. WTF Pascal.*

[learntolive]

...

[Within perhaps three seconds, if Pascal has not withdrawn, a jagged bolt of dark energy will streak out to shock the offending hand.]

[Oh, he suspects he could easily overwhelm this one should he ever wish to do so. However, if given the choice between a child of Amarcia and his current host who has yet proven utterly inept in the field of science, he would remain where he is.]

[have_hat_will_travel]

Ow!

*Pascal looks sad at Lambda's reaction. She thought they'd become friends amidst the Fodra incident! ;_;*

[learntolive]

Consider that a warning. I am not some piece of technology to be investigated and reprogrammed.

[He is unmoved by the expression and has no knowledge of events from the future.]