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I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 6:42 pmby Altamira Vazquez
Nailah is standing in the top-most room of the lighthouse, looking up at the huge spotlight that's currently turned off.
Just do it, you've been avoiding her long enough now.
"Altamira, are you around? Can you hear me?"
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:41 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"I can pretty much always hear you, Nailah."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:45 pmby Nailah Weaver
"I know, I just like deluding myself into thinking I have some privacy." she smirks faintly.
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:47 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"Then coming to the lighthouse was a bit of a silly idea," she laughed.
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:04 pmby Nailah Weaver
"I didn't know if you were paying attention."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:09 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"I pay attention," Mira said, emerging from one of the walls. "I pay attention to all the tiny details."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:12 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Just one more thing in which you're better than most people then."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:15 pmby Altamira Vazquez
Mira hesitated. "I'm not so sure about that."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:16 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Something wrong?"
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:17 pmby Altamira Vazquez
Mira sighed. "I'm pretty sure everyone hates me now."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:22 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Hate is a strong word, but you have stepped on plenty of toes since you've come back."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:25 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"It just seems...I don't know. Like people are unwilling to listen to me straight up."
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:31 pmby Nailah Weaver
"We can be pretty set in our ways and convinced of our own ideas of how the world works."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:32 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"You're really not. Of all the races in the galaxy, humans show the most..potential to expand their minds."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:39 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Not the experience I've had. At least for vast parts of humanity."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:39 pmby Altamira Vazquez
Mira waved her hand. "The very presence of this school should tell you something. This is not something that would happen everywhere."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:43 pmby Nailah Weaver
"We also had to evacuate the kids from the States. But maybe it's that tendency to question the status quo and authority among the people gathered here that's part of it."
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:45 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"And you were able to evacuate them. They weren't hunted down like dogs."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:51 pmby Nailah Weaver
"No, but they're working on that. Or at least some of them are. But that's not the point. A lot of people here have been through the harsh lesson of not trusting those trying to pass down judgement on them in some way. Do you know why I asked you to go a week without using your powers?"
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:52 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"Because you wanted me to reconnect with my 'humanity'."
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:57 pmby Nailah Weaver
"I thought you might remember what it feels like to be limited and struggling. There is so much we don't know and it's frightening, in a way."
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:59 pmby Will Stanton
"No one should have to struggle."
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:02 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Wouldn't that hollow any accomplishments? If everything was presented to us? No one should have to suffer but I think that if you take away the challenge you take away some of the meaning, some of the experience of life."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:03 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"i believe that attitude is healthy...to cope with suffering. But that's all."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:12 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Maybe that's true. I'm sure for some it is at the very least. But by reaching into our life and tweaking something so it's better makes people feel like you take away their choice. You force them to accept a pre-determined fate. And even if that's better, people will reject it out of fear. I know you only mean well, but do the Stantons? People see how easily you force something on them and they grow scared."
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:16 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"Like I said. People fear me. I don't like it."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:23 pmby Nailah Weaver
"And I'm trying to show you why. I thought maybe if you went a while without using your powers you'd still want to help people and do so in ways they're more familiar with."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:24 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"But even when I try to explain things, with words, they won't listen."
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:35 pmby Nailah Weaver
"People don't like being told they're wrong. To Sam it was a matter of principle. It's rare to see her angry, but she thought you were trying to rationalize violating one of those principles."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:36 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"I understand," Mira sighed. "It all just seems hopeless."
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:40 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Maybe you could try explaining it to me?"
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:41 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"How would you feel if everyone ignored your predictions, Cassandra?"
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:44 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Frustrated. That's why I don't tell many people about them."
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:45 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"You'd rather let people be miserable?"
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:49 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Not every problem is one that's meant to be solved by me. And I can't help everybody. Some people have problems that I'm sure they don't want me helping with."
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:49 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"So I'm just supposed to smile and nod while my children walk into the thresher. Great."
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:55 pmby Nailah Weaver
"How many people are suffering in this very moment? How many people on this planet could have a better life? Why are there floods and famines and wildfires and disease? Can you end all of that?"
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:57 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"Yes."
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:59 pmby Nailah Weaver
"But you haven't."
Re: I13DT - Bird Hunt
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:59 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"Nor have I set myself up as God Empress of the university.
There's a difference between helping my friends, Nailah, and running the universe."