Erhard Catchall

[fullbodied]

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[fullbodied]

...

[she smiles, though it's very distant and subdued for her.]

You don't have to. In a weird way, I got my revenge for it, so it's just... a memory of a dark time.

[cryosurgeon]

Revenge isn't a healthy thing, Takamaki. It leaves lasting effects. Even I understand that much.

[fullbodied]

I know. Trust me, I know.

I may look young and a little airheaded, but I've lived a complicated life too, you know?

[cryosurgeon]

But you're here, working for the Foundation even though it's dangerous. It means you want to help others. Not every teenager is that selfless.

[fullbodied]

[about that... he really believes in them, doesn't he...?]

Well... I want to help. I don't agree with their methods, but for the truly dangerous stuff, sure.

But there has to be a better way, rather than kidnapping people.

[cryosurgeon]

[He has to. Right now, the Foundation is his entire life. He literally has nowhere else to go except a frigid cell.

Or would they terminate him, since he isn't actually real?]

... regardless of how they acquired me, I gladly accepted their offer. They barely had to ask.

[fullbodied]

Really? You didn't question it at all?

[cryosurgeon]

It was an opportunity to be useful.

[fullbodied]

But...

[she pauses.]

... What good is being useful if it's all wrong?

[cryosurgeon]

I... don’t think it’s wrong, though. We’re trying to protect people from dangers they can’t understand.

[When someone strangles their gut feelings to the point where they ignore them automatically, maybe they buy into other people’s rhetoric with blind faith....]