chroma | catchall for vin

[countermeasures]

i haven't had coffee yet so this won't be pretty yet

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[allomantic]

[she tilts her head.]

How do you mean?

[countermeasures]

If we all were fully in control of ourselves... it would be harder to accept, I think, that the people we've come to car for chose violence of their own accord.

...but... easier, in some ways, because our attempts to persuade them not to hurt others would have a chance of taking root. And easier, because if we do catch someone - at least it was as a consequence of their own actions, and not of being under the prism's influence.

It would still hurt to make someone we cared about pay for their sins, but... at least they would be theirs.

[allomantic]

[after a moment, she nods.]

...The choice between watching kind people suffer unjustly, or being surrounded by people who could be cruel suffer for the choices they made.

[countermeasures]

[she nods]

Neither one feels good. They just hurt in different ways.

[allomantic]

[she nods, but after a moment:]

I suppose - I would rather be around kind people, though.

[countermeasures]

...

[she thinks about it before humming her agreement.]

I would, too.

[allomantic]

[she nods as well.]

This place would be much different were it full of those only looking out for themselves.

[countermeasures]

I think... we're lucky in the people we have ended up here with, for the most part.