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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2675336" data-attributes="member: 29014">[SBLOCK=Cassandra]'What do you think Sibyl?''You have to go, of course!  People need help!''This seems like a political mess, though...You know I'm not much for enforcing laws on people, and that's probably what they're going to do.''Well, you could check first''Nope, remember what the message said?  They don't want me coming there unless I already know I have an interest in helping their cause, even before knowing what it is.''Well, how bad could it be?''Obviously there's something really nefarious going on if it couldn't even be mentioned in a letter that was going to self-destruct.''Not every secret is nefarious, though.''But it needn't even be nefarious.  Considering the lengths they went to protect even that rather useless message with a contingencied self-destruction, there's more-or-less a guarantee that they're going to get rid of me if I don't agree with them completely.''They might just let you leave and maybe make you forget.''That won't be an option, not for a psion.  Sooner or later, I'll get the memories back, and they know it.  But those strict types who still think they can call themselves good even while they force their ways on others usually don't kill their victims...they'll lock me up somewhere...''But Cassie!  You know you want to help these people!''You're right, Sibyl...I do.  But I'm not convinced that this is the best way...''How will you know before you try, though?''Okay, how about this--We go there with all our defenses at the ready, and we zap this guy into a coma if he tries to capture or kill us.''Is that really necessary?  Can't we just all be friends?''Sibyl, we have to be ready for anything.  This is a new place, and we don't know anything about this man except that he is a wizard, and wizards tend to be dangerous with a high opinion of themselves.''Wizards can be very nice, too...Mommy was a wizard too, remember?''...Yes...I remember...'[/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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