Why aren't all worlds like that? Fear is an integral part of the human existence-- the world I'm from simply happens to have entities which feed on it.
[Jedao discards his first thoughts, because while planetary scouring and basic excision psych surgery are both eminently doable, those aren't options he particularly wants to highlight for Elias's attention. Then, thinking back over it, he frowns.]
[Elias, for all his Eyes, is no Shuos, but Jedao has still seen that look on so many of his students. Interesting, then, that he opens the door for the higher-stakes option, even though Jedao isn't giving him straightforward answers. Then again, the higher stakes are mostly higher for Jedao. The ledger says he's vindictive, and if he can traumatize Jedao for giving him a pop quiz with an unfair question, no doubt he thinks that gives him power, especially in his ersatz Vidona framework.]
I'd rather you told me and then showed me, but if you'd prefer to demonstrate first, I can be flexible.
[He folds his hands in his lap. If something is going to happen to him, he'd prefer not to spill his tea.]
[Doesn't it? he wonders, thinking of heretics and corpsepaper, of determined denial and long dread. But who knows what sort of frission Elias's owners prefer.]
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Well, it's a bit unambitious. But I meant, why is it like that?
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Why aren't all worlds like that? Fear is an integral part of the human existence-- the world I'm from simply happens to have entities which feed on it.
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[ he pauses, sips his tea ]
You'd have to get rid of all life on Earth first. But yes, once their source of fear was gone, they would in time fade away to nothing.
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If that's true, then what do they need you for?
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[Jedao knows as well as anyone how anything can become normal.]
You never did answer my original question.
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It's hard to say, I know next to nothing about you.
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he doesn't. ]
Would you rather I tell you or show you?
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I'd rather you told me and then showed me, but if you'd prefer to demonstrate first, I can be flexible.
[He folds his hands in his lap. If something is going to happen to him, he'd prefer not to spill his tea.]
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What do you require?
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[ it's one of the few powers he has available to him that doesn't need explicit permission. ]
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