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"Okay," he says to Fredrick. "That's it. I will be miserable until you are indestructible - we can't even resurrect you - and we can't make you indestructible while you are under the influence of dangerous substances."
brave-at-heart
"Felix won't let me get assassinated and we haven't tested indestructibility against the Killing Curse -"
too-early-and-too-late
"I am setting up a test and I won't actually have to go through with it Sybil can tell me."
too-early-and-too-late
"No, it can't wait, there are other ways you could die -"
too-early-and-too-late
"We've had this conversation a hundred times? Yes. We have. And every time you wiggle out of it? Yes. You do. Because you're cheating."
too-early-and-too-late
"I can trace my actions back to my own motivations and am not spending 600 times the average annual income of a citizen of my planet on drugs every day."
brave-at-heart
"You're not worried about the money, don't distract me with a fight about the money. It is indefensible not to create enough stable demand for Felix that every potionmaker in the country figures out how to scale it -"
too-early-and-too-late
"If using Felix for projects at this scale is even safe which we will not know until you successfully go off of it."
brave-at-heart
"You promised me until we'd freed all of the slaves and there are still slaves."
too-early-and-too-late
"I am increasingly worried I gave Felix incentive to prolong slavery."
too-early-and-too-late
"Not consciously. But since you don't know which plans which move serves -"
brave-at-heart
"Have you checked our slavery-ending pace and evaluated whether there's anything you could've done faster without Felix - you did, didn't you, and there's not -"
too-early-and-too-late
"I want you to stop. I need you to stop. I want to make you indestructible and safe and I want to figure out how to use this tool when it's not using you -"
brave-at-heart
"So go ahead and do that! I am not impeding you in any way from conservative appropriately cautious experimentation with Felix, I am not literally guzzling up the whole planet's supply -"
too-early-and-too-late
"Your alts said that if I tried to talk to you about it today and got deftly maneuvered out of it then they'd just come drag you off and force the point. I don't want that."
brave-at-heart
"But you don't not-want it badly enough to have asked them not to. They'd have listened -"
brave-at-heart
"And failing that you want to coerce me and failing that you'll force me but it'll be so embarrassing -"