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[in_the_cracks]

It’s been a while since Telrim’s had time for anything but business. But there must have been a lull back home, because once again there’s a Controller in the Nexus, quietly watching the people around her. As always the Yeerk is privately sizing them up - hosts, threats, interesting specimens - but her eyes follow the human-looking ones in

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[haganenomore]

"Hmm." Ed thinks about that for a moment. "Depends on the rumor. If it sounds plausible, I might be inclined to think there's something to it. And back when I was a teenager, I chased every rumor I could find on something. They never panned out though."

[in_the_cracks]

"They're slippery little things. So, you gave up chasing?"

[haganenomore]

"I found out what I needed to know from someone that actually did work on what I was looking for." He winced. "I ended up wishing I didn't know."

[in_the_cracks]

She gives a wry grimace in sympathy. "Think you'd have preferred the dead ends and speculations?"

[tastes_of_honey]

It depends on the rumor and the person telling it to me.

[in_the_cracks]

"And when it seems that everyone is saying it?"

[tastes_of_honey]

That affects it too. Just as believing everything you hear is a bad idea, so is discounting everything. Rumors aren't always wrong.

[in_the_cracks]

"No, and it's difficult to draw the line between something that's... caught people's imaginations, for lack of a better term, and something that has the weight of opinion behind it."