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[immortal_smoke]

I suspect Mayfield's intent was to convince us that, even in ten years, we won't be able to accomplish anything

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[pooka_prince]

I... perhaps 'tis not my place to say this, but...

Perhaps this feeling you are having is... right?

[immortal_smoke]

You've thought since you first heard of it that my grudge against Kaguya is a waste of time, yes?

[pooka_prince]

I have, and I will stand by my opinion.

[immortal_smoke]

You're right. It's selfish, immature, and insane.

[pooka_prince]

Yet you refuse to give it up? Why?

[immortal_smoke]

Because I am insane, childish, and immature myself. I have long since crossed the point where either of us could ever turn back.

[pooka_prince]

You continue to say that, but I cannot bring myself to believe it. What, save memory, is holding you back? Who stops you from simply letting the past be the past? Yourself, and no more.

[immortal_smoke]

Perhaps you're right. Either way, it doesn't matter anymore.

[pooka_prince]

Your happiness always matters.

[immortal_smoke]

She's gone, Cornelius.

[pooka_prince]

Then you will wallow in despair? You will not seek meaning elsewhere?

[immortal_smoke]

I don't know. Maybe I'll vanish too, maybe Kaguya will come back. Maybe I'll find a new purpose in another three hundred years.

[pooka_prince]

Mokou. Over the past week, I watched myself become something that I... that I would not like to be. I watched myself lose hope, stagnate...

I would not wish the same fate on anyone else. The world outside this one is full of possibilities- especially for... for we immortals. You could work wonders, if you wished it.

[immortal_smoke]

I know what it is to lose hope, to stagnate. I went through all of this myself over a thousand years ago. I endured the hatred of a world that fears that which it does not understand. I came to hate that world myself. After centuries of bitterness, madness, and loathing, my rivalry with Kaguya was the closest thing I have known to a stable, sociable life.

It may be possible for me to find a new purpose, but don't think that I could make such a transition in just a handful of years. My chains are long, heavy, and not easily broken.

[pooka_prince]

I have no right to ask anything of you, but if I did, all I would is that you start.

[immortal_smoke]

For now, I need some time to think.