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+I, you know, kind of had other things on my mind?+

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+It sounded pretty boring the way you described it, but I guess maybe fighting the control program was very very absorbing?+

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+Boring, lonely, generally awful,+ he agrees. +But I couldn't really get into, like - doing things, because if I started thinking about anything complicated it'd make a move while I wasn't looking. So it's not really that fighting it took a lot of attention, it's that fighting it meant I couldn't give a lot of attention to anything else.+

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Bella thinks about this.

+Eesh,+ she concludes.
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+Yep. I mean, I can think of worse ways to pass four hundred years, but they all involve torture.+

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+Might depend on how technical you were about what counts as 'torture' but yeah. Uh, congratulations on fighting the incredibly tedious good fight for so long? Inhabited planets everywhere thank you.+

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He laughs.

+You're welcome, I guess.+
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+Why is it that powerful magic weapons wind up with minds whether their creators like it or not, anyway?+

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+I dunno, just is.+

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+Do you remember being made? Coming to exist?+

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+...Kind of?+ he says. +It was a long time ago.+

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+I'd expect it to kinda stand out if you formed memories of it at all,+ Bella says.

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+Not really. It didn't hurt. Most of what I remember from around then is stuff that hurt.+

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Bella shudders delicately. +They just started in right away, they didn't even try to convince you?+

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+Well, that's just it, there was a while there when they didn't know what I was like and they were just assuming I'd cooperate, and I don't really remember any of it that well because it turns out that once you start getting tortured it is pretty hard to pay attention to other stuff.+

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+I bet. Yeesh. I'm really sorry that happened to you.+

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+...Thanks,+ he murmurs.

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+You're welcome.+

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+You're okay,+ he says after a moment.

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+Thanks. I try. Actually I aim a little higher than that in the long term but I haven't accomplished much yet so I'll take "okay" for now.+

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He laughs.

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