To some degree, all this feeling by presence is a bit bizarre. On the upside, the positive emotion now settles his tail into stillness. It's only right to help those who need help, but there's also another truth: helping people in ways they want and can work with, as the Sali had asked, is more valuable than assuming they knew the right way to help on their own.
In that sense, maybe this contact with an outreach from the shadows could inform both ways.
"We didn't choose this. We don't have a way to guarantee the tether or whatever, we don't have a way to voluntarily go home. You... do either of you know what could cause people to be granted temporary tethers to a voidcraft? Do you know where people go when that tether no longer binds them?"
He doesn't think they do, really, but to at least try asking... he uncrosses his arms, letting them rest at his sides.
"We didn't choose to be here, but we're not callous. Our Voidtrecker Express," theirs, because it's his to complain and be angry at, not the organisation these people are part of, not if they're existing gratitude for their collective help right now, "Has said before it needs heroes, 'cause it isn't one. Something like that? It finds systems in distress, and it needs heroes to help those systems, because it can't do it itself. Like with that false one, so more people didn't die. But it can't explain that well, and it doesn't speak often, and one of the only things it's asked us is to help find it's earlier crew."
He pauses for a long moment, thinking, before he gestures to Yi and Er.
"You ask questions to find truths, right? Then here's a question for a truth. The Voidtrecker Express is real. It's always been real. Trace whatever legends you find still exist, and know they're true at heart. So how, and why, can this one train of the Void be remembered, when its home isn't? What gives it the strength to keep going, when everyone it cares for was taken away somehow? It has the recordings of its former crew. Before and after the event that unmade their home, I've heard the difference. The bigger issue isn't that the Voidtrecker Express is rogue, but why you think it is, and what caused that. If your seniors don't understand that? Then the lives already being lost will truly be blood on their hands. If these things aren't stopped, one by one, everything will disappear into silence, and your investigation has to say this is reported, that systems go dark like dreams you forget when you wake. This ministry isn't ignorant, if it even was before. So why don't they do something about that," he says, gesturing towards one blank wall, "Instead of one train that's trying to fight on even when none of them believe its got a reason? It's not like you started this saying you can help people go home, you don't know any of our systems, and neither do we. What if they don't even exist anymore? How the hell can we know?"
Worry at the heart. Worry at big things and smaller things and politics that focus on the wrong, self contained problems, instead of the larger, sprawling ones. Back home, unity against that thought process had helped. Out here, would anything?
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In that sense, maybe this contact with an outreach from the shadows could inform both ways.
"We didn't choose this. We don't have a way to guarantee the tether or whatever, we don't have a way to voluntarily go home. You... do either of you know what could cause people to be granted temporary tethers to a voidcraft? Do you know where people go when that tether no longer binds them?"
He doesn't think they do, really, but to at least try asking... he uncrosses his arms, letting them rest at his sides.
"We didn't choose to be here, but we're not callous. Our Voidtrecker Express," theirs, because it's his to complain and be angry at, not the organisation these people are part of, not if they're existing gratitude for their collective help right now, "Has said before it needs heroes, 'cause it isn't one. Something like that? It finds systems in distress, and it needs heroes to help those systems, because it can't do it itself. Like with that false one, so more people didn't die. But it can't explain that well, and it doesn't speak often, and one of the only things it's asked us is to help find it's earlier crew."
He pauses for a long moment, thinking, before he gestures to Yi and Er.
"You ask questions to find truths, right? Then here's a question for a truth. The Voidtrecker Express is real. It's always been real. Trace whatever legends you find still exist, and know they're true at heart. So how, and why, can this one train of the Void be remembered, when its home isn't? What gives it the strength to keep going, when everyone it cares for was taken away somehow? It has the recordings of its former crew. Before and after the event that unmade their home, I've heard the difference. The bigger issue isn't that the Voidtrecker Express is rogue, but why you think it is, and what caused that. If your seniors don't understand that? Then the lives already being lost will truly be blood on their hands. If these things aren't stopped, one by one, everything will disappear into silence, and your investigation has to say this is reported, that systems go dark like dreams you forget when you wake. This ministry isn't ignorant, if it even was before. So why don't they do something about that," he says, gesturing towards one blank wall, "Instead of one train that's trying to fight on even when none of them believe its got a reason? It's not like you started this saying you can help people go home, you don't know any of our systems, and neither do we. What if they don't even exist anymore? How the hell can we know?"
Worry at the heart. Worry at big things and smaller things and politics that focus on the wrong, self contained problems, instead of the larger, sprawling ones. Back home, unity against that thought process had helped. Out here, would anything?