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[unites]

[The woman that stands before you... okay not actually before you but you know in the mirror... come on, dude, you're harshing my rhythm! Look, the woman who stands before you is looking... oddly calm, all things considered. Well okay by 'all things' I guess I really just mean the fact that you haven't seen her around before, so... she's probably

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[ritsu_kouyou]

She wants to build an all-female Utopian society with an overemphasis on love. It's pathetic.

[unites]

[:T

She considers this for a moment.]

I'm afraid I have to disagree on "pathetic", but... if that's the case, then her methods are absurd. If she had simply distributed these [she holds up the welcome scroll again] as legitimate invitations, rather than letters of greeting to her abductees...

[ritsu_kouyou]

Utopian societies are a fairytale dream; they don't exist and for good reason. Expecting one to exist because she says so is pathetic.

[unites]

I don't disagree; that said, unattainable ideals exist so that we might always have something to strive for.

Not that that sort of long-sighted optimism is for everyone... or should be forced on anyone.

[Wow, this got derailed quickly.]

[ritsu_kouyou]

I prefer realism over fantasy. The Queen is has the incorrect impression that we will all be happier here than home. Nothing changes her mind.

[unites]

To each their own... though I suspect my views don't differ from yours as much as I may have made them seem.

So, she is a tyrant who hides beneath a veil of false benevolence. Is there nothing to be done about it?

[ritsu_kouyou]

I've hosted her for tea... When I was in an altered state of mind. I find her less a tyrant and more a foolish child that doesn't want to share her toys.

Unfortunately, she has near-diety power that holds us all to her whims.

[unites]

[drugs are bad, akiha]

...hm. No ill will, then? [Which actually did fit the tone of the greeting scroll a bit better than the 'tyrant' theory.

Nigh-godly power was not a thing she really wanted to tangle with, tbph. Not again, anyway.]

Even gods are not omnipotent. [...] Still, the situation seems grim...

[ritsu_kouyou]

[Being hopped on Easy Listening music was very much like Akiha being high. So yes, drugs are bad.]

She doesn't seem to understand that idiom of the road to Hell being paved by good intentions.

[unites]

[I am just imagining Akiha laying sloppily on a couch with a goofy grin on her face while listening to Michael Bolton. I hope you're happy with yourself.]

I can't say that I'm familiar with the saying, but I get your meaning.

[...]

Have many been taken, do you know?

[ritsu_kouyou]

[YOU'RE VERY WELCOME!]

A lot. It's hard to get an exact number. [Not that she cares about an exact number.]

i'll laugh if akiha considers this a non-sequitur. which, in fairness, it kind of is.

[unites]

[THIS IS THE TALE OF CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW/ PIRATE SO BRAVE ON THE SEVEN SEAS/ A MYSTICAL QUEST TO THE ISLE OF TORTUGA/ IN DAVY JONES' LOCKER, WHAT LIES IN STOOOOOOORE?

Zelda shakes her head, the action slightly mournful.]

...there's nothing to be done, then, is there? In the immediate sense, I mean.

[If there were, someone - ANYONE - would've done it. If their numbers were great enough that the other girl couldn't be bothered to count them, then, just from the point of view of probabilities, someone should have grasped for an obvious solution, if one existed.

Obviously, this problem was not so simple.]

I'd hoped to be done with simply keeping my head down in the face of injustice...

[ritsu_kouyou]

Injustice will always exist and troublesome things eventually resolve themselves.

[unites]

Injustice will always exist, yes... but trying to mitigate it, to eliminate as much as one can, is a worthy goal, don't you think? I'm not so foolish as to believe that I can right every wrong - or that anyone can - but something on this scale cannot simply be allowed to run its course, if another way exists.

[ritsu_kouyou]

You claim to be able to overcome the power of a fallen god?

[unites]

To make that claim blithely would be arrogant and foolish... but, I certainly intend to try.