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[un_forgetting]

[The screen clicks on, and Naoya is staring at it rather blandly. If one looks at his surroundings, they could see he's sprawled over a bed, a laptop nearby. This part is Filtered from Kiyoshi, and is utterly unhackable.]Hmn...I'm curious, Somarium. I have two questions...answer both, if you will

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[phantasmal_girl]

[ Terra's making the most of the springtime weather - sitting on her porch by the lake, watching the two puppies playing around her. The question, however, pings. Given her own free will was taken away. ]

At the risk of endangering someone... free will is important. I would never choose to take away anyone's free will, no matter the pretense. Even if they were to make mistakes... people should be able to make their own choices.

[ Another pause at the last, because she... doesn't really know. ]
I ... don't really have anything to protect. So I can't answer that.

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[un_forgetting]

[Excellent. So this one has a brain, at least.]

In which case...if it came down to that you had to turn away from humanity to protect them while you fight for your free will...would you?

[He chuckles. It's not such a friendly sound.]

I'm sure there's something. It's possibly you haven't realized yet.

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[phantasmal_girl]

Turn... away from humanity...? What do you mean?

[ Still she's thinking about it. ] In that situation, I would be fighting for their free will also wouldn't I?

[ ... she doesn't like that laugh. ]

Um...you're... probably right. I don't think I've quite realized..

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[un_forgetting]

To give up your humanity...to not allow them to be a weakness to be used against you, so that they could be protected.

[As well you shouldn't, Terra. c:]

Time will tell, I suppose.

[Action] Because we're awful

[fated_blade]

[though Gil had told her not to leave without telling him--and that he would accompany her everywhere--she was terrible at doing what she didn't want to do. Besides, she couldn't stay cooped up in there all the time, and he was nice and all, but she liked doing things on her own!

So the little thing had made her way to the village, getting lost several times of course, and it was so pretty! And something smelled nice...a garden? It was a good hiding place, just in case her self-appointed caretaker was angrily following after.

A nice little place in the cabbages...but those nice red strawberries looked so good. The little Saber couldn't help but look at them intently, but they didn't belong to her: it was bad to eat something not given to you.]

[Action] v. awful. <3

[un_forgetting]

[Unluckily for her, the garden's owner was out in it. And wondering when, precisely, he'd planted child-bait in his garden. B|]

Arturia. [His voice is rather flat.] What are you doing here?

[Action] Willfully disobeying Gil get~

[fated_blade]

[she looked up quickly like a cat caught in the act.]

I'mnot doin'anyfing. [then she blinked her wide eyes]

...how'dyou know my name?

[Action] Oh, children.

[un_forgetting]

You most certainly are doing something.

[He sighs, running a hand through his hair.]

Magic. May we get back to the topic at hand.

[unfearful]

[Normally, Dominic would prefer to avoid Naoya, but there's something about the questions that ping him--especially since the second is similar to one he himself asked a number of months ago.]

... I'd choose to endanger the population, if it means that they can make their own choices.

[Then he smiles lightly.]

And the second question is too generic for me to properly answer, unless you're looking for an equally generic answer.

[un_forgetting]

[Ah--Dominic. Naoya smiles a little bit. He likes that answer. c:]

Well said.

[He pauses, almost considering.]

I'm sure there is something--or someone--that is precious enough to you that you'd risk everything to keep them safe.

[unfearful]

[He's silent for a few moments.]

There is. Although, to say that I'd do anything for them is...

[That might be going too far. He'd give his life up to protect what's important to him without hesitation, but he has his limits. He's not a yandere, after all. o/]

[un_forgetting]

I didn't say do anything...I said risk anything. There's a subtle difference, Sorel.

[...He stops, staring out at Espoir almost blankly. It's as if he doesn't realize the dreamberry is still recording.]

[knifenut]

How philosophical.

[un_forgetting]

It's hardly philosophical if the question has bearing on a real situation.

[knifenut]

A real situation that probably doesn't have anything to do with half of us, you mean?

[un_forgetting]

Nonsense. The scenario that our free will is taken away could be very easily played out in this place, here and now.

So it has to do with everyone.

[suppressedtime]

To be endangered means that it has not yet crossed the line into being definite demise. So for the ideal of being able to make ones own decisions... it would be a test of the population to see if they would be able to overcome the chances of danger, for certain. However what is life without chances? I believe it would be nothing more than captivity.

[And she ponders the next question. Oh, let's be vague for now.]

Loved ones normally fall under the subject of 'those to be protected', don't they?

[un_forgetting]

Precisely.

[Naoya stares at her...from Break's dream. Hmm~]

Indeed they do.

[suppressedtime]

It's a simple conclusion to come to, isn't it?

[And she smiles, not entirely mindful of the staring. It is not a far-fetched thought to think that those who know Break know her.]

Then I believe that is the answer that you will receive from most, rivaled only by a prized possession perhaps.

[un_forgetting]

In theory, it seems to be. I wonder if it would be the same in practice.

[He chuckles, thinking.] Lady...Reinsworth, I believe that there are more varied answers. Many would protect an ideal as well, you understand?