Camp: private conversations

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[soylentprotag]

[Well, that's chilling. He glances at Soma. Not quite Soma anymore, not even in the way he was between Monday and Tuesday. But the thing is, how can he not? Even if he's learned to let go of the dead -- take only what he can keep of their souls and their selves and carry them with him -- he doesn't know what to do with this.]

... The Pastor is dead. I don't see how we can... not stare.

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I promise you: if you keep looking into this, you will find things you do not want to see. Things that cannot be unseen.

You have just a little over seven weeks left. Don't fall before that time is up.

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Will there come a time when we have to see?

[He's both patient and tenacious when he strictly has to be, but this week has worn down that patience considerably, and the rest of him isn't in much better shape right now. His lungs are no longer slowly destroying themselves, but the tiredness hasn't really changed -- it's settled somewhere like mud, slow and dark.

He doesn't know what she means by fall, but he's yet to get back up, right now.]

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Hopefully not.

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So it's... not something that we need to face for these eight weeks.

[At least, if they don't mess up somehow, is what he's getting here.

He takes a breath. He may yet return to this topic, but there's not a lot of time, and he can't spend all of it dwelling on this when Red is telling him it's a dead end. So to speak.]

You said not to fall. But the Pastor said that this camp is run for sacrifices. What kind of sacrifice?

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[Red shakes her head.]

I'm sorry, but I can't tell you anything about that.

[soylentprotag]

... Is it because you don't know? Or because you can't?

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There are things about this place that I cannot tell you. There are eyes and ears in the woods, and they want to control what you know.

[So when she's elusive about information, it's because It's too fukken early in the game for those spoilers she literally can't tell him.]

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The snipers. You can't tell us how they're monitoring us?

[He's been worried, is still worried about Chuuta and his radio.

If there are other ways for those in the woods to watch them, then they should be taking more precautions than they have been. At the same time, he doesn't want to scare everyone unnecessarily. They aren't used to living like that, and it might hinder more than help. It's a messy problem; but they've made a start on it.]

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Stay out of the woods and they will leave you alone. But they can still hear you.

[She's pushing it here, even. She really shouldn't be answering these questions.]

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Okay. There's something in the woods they don't want us to see, isn't there?

[She doesn't necessarily have to answer that, but given what's been going on there so far... he's taking a guess.

He'll change tacks.]

Red... What's going to happen to the Pastor's poisoner?

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[She doesn't answer the first question, but he can safely guess the answer is 'yes.'

As for the rest, Red also doesn't answer it, but but her expression changes to a regretful one.]