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I am not sure there are very many strings here.

But you can still cut them once you know they exist.

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there's always strings
someone brought us here, someone's keeping us here

[ she's so sick and tired of being manipulated ]

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Then we find those strings.

That is what I am after. If I am going to stay here, I do not want to be manipulated either.

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deal

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We have to use our skills for something.

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you never told me all of yours

[ but then, she never told him hers, either. and still, she knows that they're alike. not all the ways in which they are, but that they are. ]

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There are a few. I imagine they are quite similar to yours.

Except they were not forced on me by a person so much as circumstance.

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did you learn how to kill, dance and marry a prince, too?

[ she figures it's the first more than the last two ]

still shit

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I have been fighting in wars and rebellions since I was six. I probably could have married a prince, if I needed to.

[ there are so many things he learned just because he needed to. he's used his looks for information a lot along the way. ]

It was done to overthrow an empire. But yes. Still shit.

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did knowing the reason help?

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Yes. Mostly.

[ not nearly as much as he pretends. ]

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liar

[ better to accuse him of that than to admit that she's desperately, bitingly jealous that at least he knew

what wouldn't she have given. would it have made it easier? -- dutch thinks back to khlyen telling her why is a question a little bird must never ask and knows that it would have.

it would have been hard in other ways, too. ]

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I did learn how to do that too. I lived more lies than truths sometimes.

[ he's not going to admit to lying Just Now though, don't be silly! of course he's lying about making it easier. he's still a ruin of a human being because of it no matter how noble the cause. ]

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it's been not so much lies as violence, for me

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In my case they tend to go hand in hand.

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how were you doing against the empire?

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Still ongoing when I left.

But I am told we win eventually.

[ he'll just never get to see it. ]

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that's something
i have no idea whether humanity gets replaced or if we win

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Humans tend to be very resilient. It is hard to imagine them being replaced.

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the hullen seem pretty sure they can manage, but i think you're right

[ else why would she be fighting? ]

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How do you fight a hullen?

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traumatic sudden brain injury is the only thing that works
stab them in the brain with a giant stick

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Does shooting them in the brain work too, or only impalement? How big a target are they?

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if you shoot them hard enough to kill their brain
and they're
look, they take over human beings
so you have to kill the human body faster than the hullen can heal it

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So once someone is taken by a hullen, they are as good as gone.

I suppose that is one way to replace humans as a species.