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we can try. we all pull togehter and we get resources. we stop Fortuna we stop the Simurg and we get you out. If we can’t we can’t but we can try. I need to scan and find yur data in the crystal

“If you all try and fail then By has to live with knowing I’m half-buried in here. Half in dreams, but I can look through his eyes and hear through his ears if I try. I know him. I know he’s too considerate of me, it’ll change how he lives his life. He won’t be free.

“But I can’t ask you to keep it from him either. That would be fucking inhuman of me to put that burden on a kid.”

Grue: It’s not your responsibility

“I wish you hadn’t looked. I don’t blame you at all and I’m grateful you cared enough to try but this is a no-win situation.”

[Kenzie Martin to Grue] If it’s not mine then whose?
I just lost my best friend a week ago. The coolest person I knew. She’s out of reach forever now, except—

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Don’t worry about it, Tristan. I’m fine. I’m tougher than I look.

“I worry that’s the opposite of true.”

Imp: It’s been a minute. Do you think maybe you could keep your end of the deal? Take fifteen minutes, lie down in the bed in the back. Just—

[clatter]

I’ve got stuff to do.
Sorry.

Imp: I don’t think there’s anything you can do.

What do you know what I can do?

Imp: Your team needs you alert and you’re all over the place like this. I don’t want to play the puppy card, but the puppy? Less than twelve hours ago?

You don’t want to make another mistake like that because you’re not thinking straight, and you’re not thinking straight as long as you’re tired.

My team needs me. I’m indispensable. T—Tristan needs me. I’ve got to find the right data, find a way to bring him back…

Imp: What if you can’t?

What if I can?

Brian: Speaking as someone who died…

“I’m guessing you disconnected.”

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Sorry Tristan. Distractions. Be right with you.

“Okay.”

[To Grue] You died. I read that, yeah.

Grue: I wouldn’t want someone to hurt themselves for my sake. Even if it meant bringing me back.

What am I supposed to do with that?

Grue: Would Tristan want you to do this? To hurt like this?

I’m not sure if I care what he wants

Decadent: Kenzie. You’ve said before that there were times you felt like you needed to do something, but it wasn’t until later that you realized you were doing the wrong thing.

How can letting someone die and not doing something about it be the right thing?