Camp: private conversations

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Respond here for a private conversation with Red! All comment threads are screened.

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[fallbymyhands]

You're quite kind, Red.

[and she means that]

To put yourself through this, year after year, to mitigate the damage. [. . .] We found something else, along with the hunter profiles. A video of two scientists in a lab, talking about you and this camp. One was a normal looking human, but the other man looked. . . strange.

[very strange?]

They both mentioned you were immune to this camp's mind effects, and the strange-looking man mentioned he wished to experiment upon you. I found it all extremely detestable.

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[Luckily she heard this from Lenka already, so it's not such a surprise to her. But she still looks bothered by hearing about him again.]

All those times I said 'you don't want to meet the men in charge'?

He's one of the ones I was referring to, and I bet you can guess why.

[She seems not bothered by the mention of experiments, though. Probably because she doesn't think they will happen.]

[fallbymyhands]

[Mitsuru doesn't blame her, truthfully]

Yes, I can. The way he talked so casually about "experimenting" on someone. . .

[a sharp exhale of breath]

Amamiya brought up a curious proposition to me earlier this week. Is this camp. . . part of a larger experiment, run by that man and the other scientists in his lab?

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[This is getting close to stuff she can't say, Mitsuru.]

I wouldn't say he runs it, no. He's a madman doing his own thing.

[fallbymyhands]

[which means she's on the right track]

Doing his own thing. . . "for the good of the world?"

[she feels like it always comes back to that]