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[ascarylady]

Please tell me there's a pet store or anything like that in this stupid place.

I need a cage.

Or at least a muzzle for something with way too many damn teeth.

[ Surprise! Sevika did manage to hatch the egg she was handed. Less surprise, what hatched has a mean streak. ]

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[ascarylady]

Sure. A pleasure.

[banworthy]

Text hides so much!

Do you, perhaps, doubt me?

[ascarylady]

Don't take it personally. I doubt most people, not just you.

[banworthy]

And here I hoped the reason you doubted me would be special.

[ascarylady]

Who knows? There's still time to find a new and special way to make me doubt you. We've only just spoken, after all.

[banworthy]

True enough.

Is it all right to ask the general reasons why you doubt others? I'd hate to tread over well-traveled roads.

[ascarylady]

It's not deep. Trust is a limited commodity where I'm from.

[banworthy]

So, putting out an assassination attempt would be considered run of the mill?

[ascarylady]

We're more into bounties, but yeah, it would be typical.

[banworthy]

Bounties sound like lots of cooks in the kitchen, if I'm using that euphemism right.

I'd be asking one person so it'd be more personal?

[ascarylady]

[ Vincent? What? ]

Is this your way of implying you want me to kill someone, or are you just trying to set a baseline of what I consider normal?

[banworthy]

The latter.

[ascarylady]

Bounties, gang violence, bar fights ending badly. It happens enough not to be a shock anymore. Assassinations sound a little more high-brow but sure, those probably happen, too.

[banworthy]

Fair enough.

Well, I can tell you that you won't experience too much of that here. Even my little joke won't go anywhere since I don't think I know anyone who would take me up on it.

But it was a fun thought experiment for a bit, wasn't it?

[ascarylady]

Throw a lot of different people together like this? I'd expect some kind of conflict. It can't all be sitting around and waiting.

[banworthy]

Of course not. I'm aware of at least one conflict but for the most part, we all try to get along with one another.

I have my thoughts as to why, and willing to share them, if you like.

[ascarylady]

Sure. Go right ahead.

[banworthy]

I'd say that regardless of how heartless people claim to be... it would take a real psychopath to willingly destroy a universe maliciously, right?

[ Keyword in this is "maliciously." ]

Preventing someone that is a representative of a universe from playing around in missions indirectly cause that... so, I think people know when to stop from going too far.

[ascarylady]

I don't know. I'd be shocked if there weren't a few real psychopaths here.

I can imagine it pretty easily, especially if you believe any of this crap and that there's a finite amount of universes that get to survive.

[banworthy]

I guess it isn't a zero possibility.

Sadly, I do believe in it.

[ascarylady]

Do you? Why is that?

[banworthy]

Call it faith in the unknown.

[ascarylady]

There has to be more to it than that.

[banworthy]

[ Man, if he had a friend who knew his fucked-up nonsense; he would show them this hilarious joke and then rest his head down to scream into the ground.

Anyway-- ]

Why's that? Do you also not have much faith?

[ascarylady]

Sure as hell not faith in the unknown.