[Listen. LISTEN!! He has one or two morals, and this means they can change the narrative!! He at least perfects the Core later so he can go on to become a weird lil antihero man, but unsure about the future of this when the Nine have been assimilated into an arcane matrix which has evolved and started Learning.
He offers Lucien a small, reassuring smile.]
We can always destroy it after we help Cree instead. Be rid of both for good.
[He does not mind that alternative. He just worries about the connection part.
Imagine its destruction rending both their souls apart and flinging them far and wide into the cosmos. He'd hate himself, but like Lucien thinks, he won't even be aware enough to care by that point.]
Have you decided what you'd like to do after all of this yet...? Where you'd like to go? What you want to be?
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He offers Lucien a small, reassuring smile.]
We can always destroy it after we help Cree instead. Be rid of both for good.
[He does not mind that alternative. He just worries about the connection part.
Imagine its destruction rending both their souls apart and flinging them far and wide into the cosmos. He'd hate himself, but like Lucien thinks, he won't even be aware enough to care by that point.]
Have you decided what you'd like to do after all of this yet...? Where you'd like to go? What you want to be?