二十三 ; èr shí sān

[getsome_sleep]

[Several drops of ink appear on the paper before Huo finally gets to writing - he's hesitating a great deal. His script, too, is slow and cautious.]

While I do not wish to associate myself with anonymous writers of dubious origins, [another long pause, another ink drop] if searchers are currently creating some effect that they are unaware of

[His

Comments

This is not a comment.

[crimson_seeker]

[Huo will get some side-eye when he gets home, but Hawk is. Not. Saying a word. He agreed to this madness. In a way.]

[longnosedliar]

No. You'd be dead, but you'd be free.

[getsome_sleep]

I do not believe that there is freedom to be found in death; perhaps that is a fault of mine.

[longnosedliar]

I think there is. I don't want to die, but no one can control you if you're dead.

[getsome_sleep]

Neither, I must point out, can you control yourself.

[unevoked]

I dunno, there wouldn't be walls 'round you anymore, would there?

[getsome_sleep]

To know this, you must define 'walls'.

[unevoked]

Something keeping you in place. Guess for it to be an option, though, you can't really be attached to the idea've living.

[getsome_sleep]

You must also be reasonably certain that death does not also keep you in place.

[coughcoughshank]

We create nothing here. The Sphere and the powers that control it create everything. Apparently some people can't understand that difference.

[getsome_sleep]

For Souji-jūn's own sake, I pray that he is wrong in this assessment.

[coughcoughshank]

Which part of it?

[getsome_sleep]

That we create nothing. Indeed, while your exchange with the unknown writer seemed justly upsetting, one may think that what they imply as for the Sphere would please you.

[ghost_of_00]

One person's decision can affect all.

[There's a pause, and the following is inked after one minute.]

Do you think this is a prison?

00

[getsome_sleep]

Whether we cherish or curse this, all things under Heaven are connected.

[This is similarly struck out quickly.]

I do not; but I am only one person.

[ghost_of_00]

Yes.

I didn't. Now I don't know.

[getsome_sleep]

[Not, in fact, struck out.]

It may be more than one thing. But this medium has its limitations.