[It's a Statement, and Jon is bound to listen now. There's static on his end, quite a bit of it, but not so much that he can't make it out, unfortunately. Thank god Elias had performed that counter-spell or this could have ended in horrible embarrassment along with everything else.]
This was a calamity of your making? The one they were fleeing?
What happened sounds horrible, but do you honestly think that compares to the scale of what you'd done? What you'd probably keep doing if you ever got home alive? People can be horrible. But they're still people! And they can change and grow and become better. And they're not responsible for what their ancestors did. They're responsible for what they do in the present moment.
What you've done to the Warriors of Light is wrong.
[ His bark of laughter comes through very clearly. The static on his end seems to have passed and his voice sounds...normal. ]
And here we come to that same, tired argument again. Even if we left these fragmented things alone, their endless cycle of persecution and hatred and war would eventually far out-scale the toll of each calamity me and my brethren bring. Ahh, but there's no use arguing such with you, mortals who can barely see beyond the second generation of your instant lives.
You're talking about the work of generations, not individuals. That's where you 'immortals' get tripped up. You just can't fathom the idea that those cycles you see are real for people. And some of them are the ones who stop the hate and the violence. Maybe a few hundred years of peace might not seem like much to you, but that's generations. That's lifetimes. That's children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and more who never see anything horrible.
My own world is destroyed. The apocalypse has come. The Fears rule over it. There is nothing we can do to change that, as far as I know. At least these people who live their small little 'fragmented' lives still have a chance for something better. Depending on where they are in your cycles, it might not be for generations, but it will come. And it doesn't need some self-appointed Architect to see it done.
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This was a calamity of your making?
The one they were fleeing?
What happened sounds horrible, but do you honestly think that compares to the scale of what you'd done?
What you'd probably keep doing if you ever got home alive?
People can be horrible.
But they're still people!
And they can change and grow and become better.
And they're not responsible for what their ancestors did.
They're responsible for what they do in the present moment.
What you've done to the Warriors of Light is wrong.
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And here we come to that same, tired argument again. Even if we left these fragmented things alone, their endless cycle of persecution and hatred and war would eventually far out-scale the toll of each calamity me and my brethren bring. Ahh, but there's no use arguing such with you, mortals who can barely see beyond the second generation of your instant lives.
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That's where you 'immortals' get tripped up.
You just can't fathom the idea that those cycles you see are real for people.
And some of them are the ones who stop the hate and the violence.
Maybe a few hundred years of peace might not seem like much to you, but that's generations.
That's lifetimes.
That's children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and more who never see anything horrible.
My own world is destroyed.
The apocalypse has come.
The Fears rule over it.
There is nothing we can do to change that, as far as I know.
At least these people who live their small little 'fragmented' lives still have a chance for something better.
Depending on where they are in your cycles, it might not be for generations, but it will come.
And it doesn't need some self-appointed Architect to see it done.
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Enough. I'm not arguing this with someone who would rather tuck their head between their knees and cover their ears to worlds beyond their own.
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[Hiss, hiss! He's hanging up, too! It's... much less dramatic to close a text window than slam a phone down, though.]