[ this had been just an errant thought once, a hypothetical worst-case scenario he had considered after learning about the Oracles, which altogether sound too good to be true. they're supposed to solve everyone's problems, but no one can quite define what they are or how they're supposed to do that. john lives in the real world where nice things don't just happen for free, so naturally, his thoughts turned to the darkest possible place because that's what he's bracing for.
acceptable losses is how he'd defined it once because one world is a small price to pay in exchange for countless others, but he is well aware he isn't like other people. sensing that bit of uncertainty in liem, the Zenith influence compels him to press it further. ]
The cycle of nature is what it is, and resurrection is expensive. You're asking for entire universes to be rebuilt and lost souls to be restored. How do you suppose that happens?
[ he gives liem a pitying look. no one has to die? hmm. ]
You don't really believe that, do you? Wishful thinking is all well and good in a place like this, but we have to be realistic. The Meridian was willing to occupy territory that could starve a city if they wanted to cut it off entirely, remember? What else might they be willing to do when everything they believe in is at stake?
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[ this had been just an errant thought once, a hypothetical worst-case scenario he had considered after learning about the Oracles, which altogether sound too good to be true. they're supposed to solve everyone's problems, but no one can quite define what they are or how they're supposed to do that. john lives in the real world where nice things don't just happen for free, so naturally, his thoughts turned to the darkest possible place because that's what he's bracing for.
acceptable losses is how he'd defined it once because one world is a small price to pay in exchange for countless others, but he is well aware he isn't like other people. sensing that bit of uncertainty in liem, the Zenith influence compels him to press it further. ]
The cycle of nature is what it is, and resurrection is expensive. You're asking for entire universes to be rebuilt and lost souls to be restored. How do you suppose that happens?
[ he gives liem a pitying look. no one has to die? hmm. ]
You don't really believe that, do you? Wishful thinking is all well and good in a place like this, but we have to be realistic. The Meridian was willing to occupy territory that could starve a city if they wanted to cut it off entirely, remember? What else might they be willing to do when everything they believe in is at stake?