[aather] Candle Call post

[quercusoptima]

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[immoetality]

He doesn't cook. But that's fine.

What are you doing?

[quercusoptima]

I was just reading. Souya is attempting to fish.

[immoetality]

You're that sure he won't drown?

[quercusoptima]

He's better at floating than most.

[immoetality]

Never underestimate the buoyancy of simple fools, I suppose.

[quercusoptima]

He has his other clever points.

[immoetality]

Mm, he has a knack with your type.

[quercusoptima]

And what sort of type is that?

[immoetality]

The type with good intentions who think more than they ought to. It gets you into trouble, that pensive mind of yours.

[quercusoptima]

No more than not thinking at all gets others into trouble.

[immoetality]

Ignorance isn't bliss?

[quercusoptima]

Only if you're the sort that never ever learns from their mistakes.

[immoetality]

Hoh, this is bliss? I can see why the world isn't made of fools now.

[quercusoptima]

... There is sometimes something to be said about faith, too.

Who was it?

[immoetality]

Lelouch. He gave up our bond. Of course, he'll still cling to me, but he managed to escape my curse.

[quercusoptima]

Ah ... of your life? Or of your knowledge?

[immoetality]

My existence is my own as is my knowledge. I gave him power.

[quercusoptima]

But power to what end?

[immoetality]

Whatever he cared to use it for. Indiscriminate power to do good or to do evil.

[quercusoptima]

And that was what he gave up?

[immoetality]

Mm, in a game to keep his sister and himself from dying. She wanted it gone for awhile now, though. What a horrible man, leaving all the blame to me like that.

[quercusoptima]

Are they seriously taking away the skills and memories people have regained ... ?

You said he would still cling to you, though.

[immoetality]

We are allowed to choose what we would give up in order to save ourselves and the person with us.

He will. But he also has to return to the life that he left when he made our contract.

[quercusoptima]

Which is the same life that drove him to make a contract with you in the first place?

[immoetality]

So, it is.