This place was testing you... [Norton would. Then again, can he really blame Norton for the 500 strangers? (He will a little but not entirely.)] ...He killed 500 people instead of a single person just because he didn't have to look them in the face when he did it?
...Are we really just rats in a cage?
[TERRIBLE.]
Hyuse said when he and Nabiko tried to get into the room in the garage, they ended up opening the back of a truck. They saw the corpses of people they knew. The cut-outs, too. Why...? Is it just to scare us? Or to make us angry?
You'll have to ask him. I thought it was a bad idea to invite a stranger to join us in the first place. They seemed quite determined to protect her.
[But haha!! Hey!!! HE HATES THAT LAST PART.]
...We need to put all of the pieces of this together. Finding a way to locate and kill that rat would be ideal--Mrs. Nott seemed to think something like that was the key, but I have no idea how to locate it.
[He props his chin on the backs of his fingers, looking thoughtful, and then he crosses his arms.]
I don't know if I can blame him for that. Sora would probably do the same thing. I'm not sure if he would kill one person over the people he loves, or 500 strangers either. But that's okay. If I had to do it for him, I would, so he didn't have to.
[Sora has gone through enough. And, well, he might have had a redemption arc, but he still thinks his hands are a little dirty so it wouldn't matter.]
Sora and I have seen a robotic rat. It surprised us in the security room, so I had wondered if it was some kind of guard. If I go by my vision... maybe that's true. So do we kill it?
None of us were going to kill our loved ones--I was concerned there was some sort of trick to it, however. [That "500 strangers" didn't really mean "500 people you've never met and don't care about". Maybe he just reads too much, though, since apparently it was... well. As fine as such a choice could be.] But it seems there wasn't. [...] We did try to avoid choosing any of those options--but doing that simply trapped us in a tunnel that seemed endless. There was no way out without bloodshed of some kind.
[Norton could also be lying, of course. Maybe there was a trick after all. But Leo's acutely aware that he's only fourteen, not even an adult by his world's standards--if Norton didn't listen to him in the truck, he sure as hell isn't going to change his story now, so whatever. What's done is done.
If I had to do it for him, I would, so he didn't have to--and that's it, isn't it? That's all people like them really want, at the end of the day. To do what they can to make sure the people important to them don't ever stop smiling. To make the hard choices, so their loved ones don't have to. "If you had to kill someone, would you?" Riku asked earlier, and... for himself? It's hard to say. But for Elliot? Absolutely.]
We'd have to find it first. You'll want to speak to Mrs. Nott, if you haven't already--she mentioned "Squeak-ee"?
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...Are we really just rats in a cage?
[TERRIBLE.]
Hyuse said when he and Nabiko tried to get into the room in the garage, they ended up opening the back of a truck. They saw the corpses of people they knew. The cut-outs, too. Why...? Is it just to scare us? Or to make us angry?
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[But haha!! Hey!!! HE HATES THAT LAST PART.]
...We need to put all of the pieces of this together. Finding a way to locate and kill that rat would be ideal--Mrs. Nott seemed to think something like that was the key, but I have no idea how to locate it.
[Rat? Squirrel? Whatever.]
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I don't know if I can blame him for that. Sora would probably do the same thing. I'm not sure if he would kill one person over the people he loves, or 500 strangers either. But that's okay. If I had to do it for him, I would, so he didn't have to.
[Sora has gone through enough. And, well, he might have had a redemption arc, but he still thinks his hands are a little dirty so it wouldn't matter.]
Sora and I have seen a robotic rat. It surprised us in the security room, so I had wondered if it was some kind of guard. If I go by my vision... maybe that's true. So do we kill it?
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[Norton could also be lying, of course. Maybe there was a trick after all. But Leo's acutely aware that he's only fourteen, not even an adult by his world's standards--if Norton didn't listen to him in the truck, he sure as hell isn't going to change his story now, so whatever. What's done is done.
If I had to do it for him, I would, so he didn't have to--and that's it, isn't it? That's all people like them really want, at the end of the day. To do what they can to make sure the people important to them don't ever stop smiling. To make the hard choices, so their loved ones don't have to. "If you had to kill someone, would you?" Riku asked earlier, and... for himself? It's hard to say. But for Elliot? Absolutely.]
We'd have to find it first. You'll want to speak to Mrs. Nott, if you haven't already--she mentioned "Squeak-ee"?