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[winewomenand]

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[ Goodfellow is sitting on the rooftop of one of the apartment buildings - notably not his own, but Ishiah's. The cheap green and white aluminum and polyester beach chair he's sitting in creaks when he leans back and folds his arms behind his curly chestnut-haired head, large sunglasses more expensive than most people's rent

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[hundredflowers]

...you idiot, heading into a place like that. Or did they take you by force?

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[winewomenand]

I was involved in a last minute, somewhat poorly executed, incredibly frustrating extraction mission.

Life goes on. It has got to, otherwise it is death, I suppose.

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[hundredflowers]

You're immortal, not invincible. But I guess, count your blessings, you're already out, after all. I thought you never executed things poorly.

Death to those still inside. I haven't gotten within miles of the place.

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[winewomenand]

I execute things flawlessly. I cannot say the same when traveling in a group.

Yes. Death to them. I offer them a prayer to the wind, sad, unlucky saps. But that's all I have for them.

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[hundredflowers]

You brought a group?

...and you pray?

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[winewomenand]

They followed me.

And of course I pray. Everyone prays, whether or not they even realize it.

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[hundredflowers]

Pied Piper.

Does praying mean that there's necessarily someone or something that you pray to? Who or what would Robin Goodfellow pray to? Himself?

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[winewomenand]

Hm.

Someone, something. Does it matter when it is all the same in the end? A prayer is nothing more than hope stripped of her stupidity. You think it's strange I would do something like that?

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[hundredflowers]

Yes.

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[winewomenand]

My gods, why?

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[hundredflowers]

Because I'm completely and utterly unable to even guess at what your hopes might be, in any given instant. Unable to put my finger on anything, I assume you don't have many.

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[winewomenand]

I do not have hopes. Do you know why?

Zeus did not want a creature to throw his life away easily, no matter how much evil might torment him, but rather to go on letting himself be tormented. To that end, Zeus gives man hope. In truth, it is the most evil of evils because it serves only to prolong suffering.

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[hundredflowers]

And why does Zeus not want creatures to throw their lives away easily? What point and purpose is there to keep around things that are wasted, or broken, and strive in spite of being broken?

Quite a cruel sense of humor.

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[winewomenand]

Well, they are gods. It is their will to power.

How they feel about that is their own business.

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[hundredflowers]

Funny thing about power is that everyone always seems keen on exercising it, when they have it. But holding back or biting one's tongue is still an action, even if it doesn't really carry too much momentum behind it.

It's still cruel. And idiotic.

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[winewomenand]

I never said that it wasn't cruel and idiotic.

All that I am saying is that hope is hope, but prayer is begging. We can beg from someone we despise. What should we care if we owe them a debt we never plan to be able to repay?