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He yawns his way down the stairs, ambles over to Bar, sits, and says, "I have a yearning for maple mead today."
Sad Cam and Aral in Milliways
on-my-word
"So in a world where no one can be hurt and everyone has access to all they could possibly desire, what do you want more magic for?"
from_scratch
"And some people are dead, and some of them are cyborgs and I can bring those back and I'm working on it, but some of them were magical immaterial god things who were not backed up to chip."
on-my-word
He stays still for a few more seconds, overcome by some nameless emotion.
Then -
"I've been there," he says. "More times than I'd like. It does not get any easier. I'm sorry."
He stares moodily into his orange juice.
from_scratch
"I'll probably feel a little better once the cyborg Elves are all okay again, maybe unless by that time they've started organizing protests or something."
on-my-word
"Well. Good luck. I'm sorry I can't be more help."
That is evidently the saddest cup of orange juice in the whole multiverse.
from_scratch
"I have to admit I was expecting more recriminations or at least demands that I justify myself when I confessed to mass murder, not that this is an unpleasant surprise."
on-my-word
"Well, 'it's my fault' doesn't necessarily equate to mass murder," he says. "The incident that left me with a multiplanetary reputation for mass murder was arguably my fault, and certainly my responsibility, but I didn't kill two hundred civilian prisoners whose lives I had sworn to spare, I just failed to stop one of my subordinates from doing it on his own initiative. Surprising how little that seems to help."
on-my-word
"Well, don't feel that you need to justify yourself to me. 'It's my fault and I would like to fix it' was enough."
on-my-word
Oh look. The orange juice of woe is all gone.
"Is it too soon to ask again about the maple mead?" he inquires of Bar.
endoftheuniverse
He can have a milkshake with a maraschino cherry and whipped cream and a crazy straw.