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Oh, that I can already tell. I was asking it as more of a general question.

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If I was, I wonder what you would do.

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Right now? Not much.

I consider this a personal concern call, not a professional one.

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We're not friends.

[timestones]

Didn't say we were.

[nightmarist]

So what's there to be personally concerned about?

[timestones]

I'd share, but we're not friends.

Jokes aside, I pegged you as someone who knows better than to assume anything is ever just black or white. But I'll admit, I've been wrong before. Once or twice.

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There's nothing grey about what you'd do to me if I told you I was tired of this world after all.

[timestones]

What is it you think I'd do?

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Put me in a box.

[timestones]

I know the history of that fear long predates me and trust is higher than premium for you, for good reason. But even knowing that, I've got to ask: when have I ever said, implied, or threatened that I'd do that to you?

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You don't have to. Are you trying to say you wouldn't? If these little chats failed and all the concern in the world wasn't enough to talk me down.

Don't lie to me. It's a waste of time.

[timestones]

To be interested in honesty, you'd have to not already have all the answers.

What I'm saying is that if it went that way, I'd have some difficult choices to make, but I haven't had occasion to put anyone in a box that I wasn't willing to lock myself inside of as well. And if that were to ever change, I certainly wouldn't start the trend with you. Not by a long shot.

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Why not?

[timestones]

You're starting to sound like you want me to put you in a box.

[nightmarist]

I wanna know why you wouldn't.

[timestones]

Have you ever known a problem that was ever solved by boxing it up and shoving it into the back of a closet?

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How do you solve a problem like me, then?

[timestones]

Honestly? I don't. Not right now.

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You're slippery, magician.

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Am I?

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I don't regret it, by the way.

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If you did, we'd be having a very different kind of conversation right now.

[nightmarist]

About the precious value of human life?

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No, because it's quite clear that you do actually know a little something about the value of human life already.

There are some things you really don't need a guy in a big red cloak to tell you about.