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[quote][b]Remus (Aug 08, 2003 11:43 a.m.):[/b] "Hey." "Hey." "Still brooding?" "Maybe." "Well get over yourself. Eulik says the Wetakkan's ready when you are." "It's not me I'm brooding over." "You're still whining about *her*? She tried to end the bloody universe, Xan. I hereby absolve you of whatever twisted sense of guilt you're clinging to." "It wasn't her that did those things. It was me." "You don't know that. You saw what she showed you. Just because she chose to depict Jaelis as the perfect little angel you knew as a kid and Xan as the dark prince doesn't mean that was how things were. Free tip: the next time you hop into the mind of somebody who's that freaking crazy, don't believe what you see." "You don't understand." "I'm trying to." "I know." "Thanks." "Any time." "What will you do now?" "Fight the good fight, I suppose." "Without your army?" "Without my army. And on a new battlefield." "You're going to accept Rion's offer?" "Yeah, I think so. I don't see how I can turn it down. Arraxis said that the offer was for you, originally." "He mentioned it. I turned him down." "How? How do you manage not to care about all those slaves on Draco, or on the other Commonwealth worlds? What makes you different from us?" "Nothing. And I do care. It's a leap forward and I think it really can succeed with Rion behind it." "Then why did you turn it down?" "Because I'm done with history, and I want history to be done with me. And I knew that there'd be someone to go in my place if I passed." "I might have refused. You know I hate dracs." "I know. But you'll go anyways. You'll do what you have to do to make sure they remember your name when terrans are celebrating their first millennium on their own planet, even if it isn't Earth." "That's really what you think of me? That I'm some glory-hound that will do anything to be famous?" "Not famous. You'll do anything to be great. You're ambitious. It's not an inherently bad thing. It all depends on what you do with your ambition. This is a good cause. This is a right and just cause. This is something worth being remembered for." "Well, I'm glad you approve. There's a load off my mind." "Glad to hear it." "And what about you? You could be great too, Xan. Hell, you saved the bloody universe; you probably qualify already. You're going to go to Roth and farm a plot of land for the rest of your life? Is that all the ambition you have? Most of the galaxy has no idea what you did on top of that tower. They don't know Jaelis even existed. So what will you be remembered for?" "That's the fundamental difference between you and me. You want to be remembered. I want to be forgotten." "I don't understand you. Sometimes I wish I could read people like you can." "I can read people and I *still* don't understand you." "But I think you're right about me. Partially, at least. If I had your powers, I'd probably use them to do bad things with the best of intentions. Whatever picked you to be what you are, they chose well. You can be trusted with what you have." "I wouldn't be too sure. Just remember the future Jaelis came from." "And now we're back to the beginning again. Come on, Xan. Everybody's waiting." "Yes." "Time to go home."[/quote]
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