(animal noises) ............... 3!

[countermeasures]

shitpost to come once you know who our new buddy is......

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[ktiseos]

As Clarte mentioned above, if there are any you believe I ought to avoid from your interactions with her-- do say so.

[aitou]

[I don't want to paste these in text format so here yams will tell him about these.]

i dont know about avoiding or not avoiding so much as
helping her realize that maybe this place isnt the one that needs her protection and her balance
but that her duty is to her real home
shalesan told me before that he believes this is the place he belongs right now
but that if he realized he was needed somewhere else then he would follow that path
but steelsan truly believes that theres no leaving here and that we all just need time to realize that this is our home now
so if i had to guess id say the first step would be helping her accept the idea that there really is a way out
i know change is probably scary to her and it goes against her beliefs
but things have already changed because of us anyway

[Actually, adds this too--a little while later:]

for what its worth
we were talking about all these things because of what happened with vax and percy
i told her that her ideal sounded really nice but that with the deaths continuing to happen, it wouldnt ever be possible
and she told me she wouldnt accept a world in which kiyomitsu and i were forced to make a choice like they did

[can't believe we're badending because anmitsu didn't have to execute each other and now steel won't ever change her mind (no)]

[ktiseos]

She truly will be difficult, then, to convince of this... I do believe this is still worth the attempt, but care will certainly need to be taken.

Mayhap we ought to decide the contents of these dreams among ourselves, rather than simply using this information to craft them alone.

[gotta minimize the risk of just fucking up their efforts with dreams,,]

[aitou]

yeah
i dont think its a good idea to try and convince her to give up her goals completely or anything
maybe we could if we wanted to stay here for a long time but with everything else
i dont think we can do that
so maybe its more about helping her think that its okay for this place to change
and that its possible for us to leave it

[georeject]

Following what Yasusada said:

Shale still seems uncomfortable or detached recalling something about his family, such as when we mentioned that they're waiting for him for whenever he's ready.

I also know that he left home to travel with his friends and help them with their problems, and then he told us, "I always figured, when I'm meant to find them, I'll find them again." Them being his family, not his friends, I believe.

[ktiseos]

Mm. I believe the memory I saw of his was when he decided to leave; I saw his home, the place he lived and took care of, and a vision of his which occurred before their arrival.