[Stolen Journal 51]

[goldenpathredux]

I have returned to the village for a moment. With it I bring news: I have conquered the voice-within known as mother. We knew her as Jenova. Now she is another voice within my internal multitude, at my disposal. I have all her memories.

Does anyone wish to know anything about her?

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[silvergeneral]

All, truly? Strange indeed, her genetic material alone does not hold so much, you know.

[goldenpathredux]

It holds her memories, and that is enough for me. Do you know how many planets she had taken before she came to your world?

[silvergeneral]

[he's quiet for a long moment]

I do. Keep what knowledge you glean, sand king. What I know is what she has shared, deliberately or otherwise, and it is enough. I don't care for that fine line of madness she walks. There is no returning from there.

...As I know the situation, it was not she who turned her hand against you. To fight what fragments of her are left bereft of her consciousness, that is one thing. We all fight that particular battle for dominance. This is what separates the children from the clones.

To broadcast her history, most of it useless to others, simply because she is not here to stop you is another. Why do you do it?

[goldenpathredux]

Neither does she. She's long since lost count.

Because I take personal affront. Because she would absorb people into herself in the same way. Because we have precious little enough freedom in this place as it is.

[silvergeneral]

Mmm, and yet this incident was the product of complete impersonality. Strange how such things turn out.

[he shrugs]

She is what she is. She has her faults, but that, I think, has never been one of them. She consumes what she does because she feeds on it... lives on it. I have never considered that evil, just as I've never hated the carrion birds that fed on our dead.

But I don't know what I think of one who does the same for mere superiority's sake and then crows it from the treetops.

[goldenpathredux]

Hah! I like you. I might let your little brother live for that.

You are wrong. But you are wrong for the right reasons.

[silvergeneral]

Enlighten me.

[his voice changes]

But what is this about my brother?