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[Fiona is a little out of breath, like she just hustled very quickly away from somewhere. Which she did, but that's neither here nor there. The background behind her is some innocuous wood panelling; she's in a house.]

Okay. So. Crunch time. Things are getting nuts out there, if you didn't notice. We are gonna wind up super screwed if we don't hop to figuring out what the hell to do.

[She holds up a vial. It has some alien writing on it, as well as a familiar symbol on the label.]

We found this inside the hospital. A shit-ton of them, actually. So who wants to find out what Zymandis asshole is responsible for this mess and beat an antidote out of them?



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[selfimage]

Therein lies our problem, doesn't it? It's too bad he isn't wearing a red and white striped shirt.

[pummelling]

I spy a Zymandis infiltrator with my little eye...

Wait a second, do you mean last mission or a mission before that? I've only been here since right before Q-65.

[selfimage]

Nalawi.

[ there's a dryness in his voice. ]

Audentes killed two goddesses.

[pummelling]

This Nalawi business again.

[It's from before his time, but the spectre of that mission seems to hang around all of the old-timers, so to speak. Reading the files and hearing explanations of it doesn't seem to do the actual events much justice at all.]

Tell me. And be honest.

Do you think that Audentes should have killed them?

[selfimage]

[ be honest, he says. ]

A loaded question ...

[ he trails off for a moment, and then continues. ]

For the timeline to continue, they had to die. Who are we to tell anyone that their existence is so flawed that they must relinquish their desire to exist and become a sacrifice?

Those of us stepped in far too readily at that time, full of a lust for revenge and blood in a world that was not our own, for the better of the timeline.

Should and shouldn't are the result, but the timeline also deals in circumstances. It wasn't given the proper care.

[ it comes up again—if he, a god, was told he had to sacrifice his life for the timeline, would he do it?

did he want to be forced to? ]

[pummelling]

[Jin listens attentively, taking in every nuance and detail of the story.

It's... a lot. A grander scheme than he's used to operating upon, even when he'd been in the business of stopping rogue deities, himself. But compared to this sort of dilemma, Shinnok was easy. The fallen elder god had sought destruction and the end of things. The logic of it all was stark black-and-white, without these shades of gray that are beginning to emerge out of their missions.

One life for another. One world for many. And although he's unaware of how heavily his own timeline has dealt in circumstance, he knows that this isn't a choice he'd ever wish to have to make.

When it came down to it, could he ever sacrifice an innocent? Even for the sake of the timeline?]

What would've been proper care, to you? A third option?

From what you're telling me, it... doesn't sound as if there would've been much of a third option to pick at all.

[selfimage]

No, it never sounds that way, does it?

[ because they had to find the cracks in the foundation themselves, between two options. Loki was never interested in making something him versus everyone else, so he had used what he could in the way he wanted during Nalawi. ]

But here we are, at the crux of infinite possibility, limited by consequence. It's poetic irony.