voice; un: eliasainsworth

[thornydisposition]

I believe I have some information that might be of use, or at least to consider.

[The voice is low and very even, having only the barest hint of a conversational cadence.]

My companion, Shuyi, and I managed to locate and capture Miz Poppy. We captured her and two of her Deemer companions, and as we began to take them back to Perdition's Rest, she had some very interesting things to say.

She reaffirmed that there was no way to safely separate a Taraxa from its host without the destruction of the latter. What is more troubling, however, was that she insisted that hers and her compatriots' mission of destruction was something which the TIMELINE.EXE asked of them.

Before we could deliver her back here, one of the other captured Deemers sacrificed himself so that she may escape in the confusion.

It is not my intention to offer this information in order to incite mass confusion or doubt, as it is quite possible she was lying. But I do not think we can completely discount that she might be telling the truth—or that she and her fellows are somehow deluded enough to believe that they are. It is, as I originally said, something to at the very least keep in mind.

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[twinpeak]

Uh, let's see... [ Dipper trails off briefly, counting off his fingers, then: ] About a year? Almost. Going by a normal Earth calendar, that is.

[gunah]

That is not long enough to cease caring for those others whose fates are tied to ours.

[twinpeak]

—Wait, what? This isn't about not caring! I'm just saying whatever happens from this, we'll make stuff work, and, y'know, survive.

[gunah]

Surviving isn't enough.

[twinpeak]

We're not going to get very far in what we do if we don't manage that much.

[gunah]

If you could save every single Qorral for the price of your life. Would you?

[twinpeak]

I—no? What're you getting at?

[gunah]

I would consider it. Would it not be worth the sacrifice?

[twinpeak]

I'm not going to start considering dying.

[gunah]

And why not? To live is to slowly die. It is inevitable.

[twinpeak]

Yeah? But I'm also only thirteen, kinda want to make it back home at some point, aaaand this conversation has officially turned weird.

[gunah]

Children younger than you have died.

[ But she thinks he doesn't want to hear that. ]

Let us choose the right ally then, the one who will keep their promises.

[twinpeak]

[ Oh. No, he really doesn't. ]

... Sure thing, lady. I'll get right on that.