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*Smiles*
And that's why I collect stories. I believe that words and empathy can change people in a way sheer strength can't. But I'm not delusional—I know it's a slow way to change the world. That's why I'm searching.

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*Keeps on scanning the environment and looks to the fruit for a bit but keeps on following*

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Speaking of... Did you sensed anything at all up to this point Orthrus? Maybe i'm missing something here...

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That’s not something I’m unhappy with, as it stands. So don’t cry for me, we still have to finish looking at you.

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It is slow, that's for sure. But not fully effective. Not for everyone, at least.

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*Nods*
You're right again. And it's for that reason I think a perfect solution exists out there. Not everyone can be convinced by speech, and violence perpetuates the issue. But there are some things we can all agree on.

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Well, if there is, I haven't found it.

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Let me give you an example. For most beings, death is about as final as it gets. Everything else that could happen to someone can be changed, but death is the only truly final outcome there is. The closing of a book never to be opened again. I generalize, of course, but it's probably the most extreme thing that could happen to anyone.

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*When we reach minor indicators of civilization, we stumble across a massive sinkhole the size of a small town, with a barely-visible orb of distortion hovering just below ground level*
My home...

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Mmm...Nope! I can't die, so I don't follow.

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Ummm... that doesn't look like a home... should i be concerned? Orhtrus @Magnanimity?

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This isn't what it's supposed to look like.

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*I lift my tesseract in order to get a clearer reading as it's crimson glow stops and turns dark obsidian like* Well... i guess we found some manifestation of your curse then...

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I did say it was a generalization, after all. Maybe it looks like something else to you. A permanent end of another kind.

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For me, nothing except my existence is permanent. This...well let's just say it's a blessing and a curse.

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What is it?

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Well i don't know just yet, but even this astral form of my tesseract is reacting evidently negative towards it. It clearly is attacking deeply intimate parts of your memories and attachments to your past, maybe it has something to do with how this is blocking your feeding channels?

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*Every piece of my body you come in contact with begins to glow with the same golden light enveloping my hand, and I return punch for punch, matching your blows like a mirror*

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*Floats in place as the occasional bolt of electricity periodically surges up each of my arms, out of sync from each other*

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*Most of the afterimages fade when struck by the attack, but a small handful leap into the air and approach you directly, shielding themselves with glowing yellow arm braces*

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You're gonna make me blow my cover!
*A shield in the form of a jagged half-heart morphs onto my arm and absorbs the brunt of the blow directed toward me, and then I twist the shield to face you and releases it as a pure shockwave into your own body, before whisking the shield away*

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A. Knight: Your trickery won't get you far.

*several bolts jet from my arms into you at different invervals, peripdically hitting you all at once, as I observe how you react*