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[sensive]

[ a pause to take in that approval (warm, appreciative) and the subsequent chaser. what sense is there in hiding? ]

i don’t know all the details
the place i’m from had these heroes to protect us for a long time, from dangers that were bigger and more powerful all the time, but we lost a lot of them

so he wasn’t supposed to exist
they were just trying to make somebody strong enough to protect everybody
i wasn’t the guy they wanted it to work on either, more like the first draft

[ to be discarded. ]

[snaggleteeth]

My first master regretted making me what I am, too. Or she would've, if she were capable of questioning herself.

I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm not. Wasn't me, obviously. Someone should be, though.

[did they make that person pay? he does wonder. seems like part of an extended universe, slightly outside the scope of today's introductory book club session.]

How many other drafts were there?

[sensive]

[ understanding in everything down to that she. valentina certainly had regrets. ]

thanks

[ for saying that. it matters every time someone does. ]

a lot
but nobody else survived it

[snaggleteeth]

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Have you considered the possibility you survived because of him?