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*Stares forward in dread, the translucency continuing to increase*

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*Clenches my fist and grunts before jumping to my feet and grabbing you with a glowing pink hand, the energy of life flowing from me to you*

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*Shoves the mass of debris and metal off of me and climbs out from under the ground*

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*Reattaches my arm and sits next to you*
...Thank you.

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She failed and didn’t even know it. But she died believing she won. Not the way I wanted it to go, but perhaps the next best way.
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Perhaps.

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I felt as if I had owed that to her. Somehow.

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If not your actual life, then that at least... What in the world are you planning that has time travelers coming back to kill you?

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I have no plans to murder my sister, to answer for her primary grievance.

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Not directly at least. And there’s also her claim that you said it.

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Ah, I may have neglected to mention that her resolve against me isn't unfounded. I had staged an ultimatum in order to limit the damage she might cause to my lab and to others. She had not taken well to failing her primary goal, and I had hoped that by allowing her to paint me as the villain, she might find an inspiration to live.

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That also doesn’t even cover what the deal with this war stuff is.

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My hands are not perfectly clean in that sense. But I would also argue that I haven't done anything reprehensible.

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Besides at least having a hand in starting it, you mean. Because that’s reprehensible, no sugarcoating it.

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Only if it would have been sustainable otherwise. By collapsing the previous System and immediately restoring the Tier System, it prevents escalation into a greater conflict.

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True under the assumption that it was immediate. Clearly, it wasn’t.

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Not in her world. In ours, it will be.

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The war is ongoing, with the same people who started it with the same reasoning as you here and now, and probably with just as much confidence.

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There are greater forces at work than I. And the alterative was to wait for someone else to free the Gears.

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Which would have been worse?