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[wordsmithery]

If you're deciding to actually use that phone in your room, go right ahead; the Wordsmith is a busy man but he's often around, and he has no real reason not to talk to you, assuming that you do it correctly.

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[wordsmithery]

That is, shall we say, up for interpretation. I, however, would call it a valuable lesson in who is and is not trustworthy.

[firstaid]

[There's a forlorn sigh from her.]

But until anything happens, we perhaps won't even know. I...I don't want to find out someone is untrustworthy because they murdered.

[She has conflicting thoughts on murder, though.]

Even so, if someone did have to resort to that, like you mentioned, what if it ends up being a necessity? How could you make someone choose between their world and someone's life here?

[wordsmithery]

Quite easily, really.

[firstaid]

Why? It seems so cruel to do that! What purpose--

[She cuts herself off, no, she understands this is going to go in circles. Trust.]

You want us to trust each other and those who we affiliate with at home enough to not have to make that choice, isn't that correct?

[Even now, she wants to find the optimistic view of this.]

[wordsmithery]

If that's what you want to believe the goal of this exercise is, you're welcome to believe that.

[firstaid]

But is that the goal? I know what I want to believe, but I must admit, I feel uneasy when I don't know for sure-- that you're not answering my questions clearly!