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[marcato]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, SATURNSCHILD. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 001.00.653.90 *** SATURNSCHILD has joined 001.00.653.90 <saturnschild> Hello. <saturnschild> I'm listening.

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<BlackHat> after that whole arrivals mess

[evilopportunityemployer]

[After that whole arrivals experience, Black Hat took some time while resting to scroll back on the network. A certain reply in particular caught his eye.]

Boo.

[Sometimes to help yourself feel better you just have to ruin a man's hopes.]

<saturnschild>

[marcato]

Has anyone ever told you that your existence is a constant disappointment?

<BlackHat>

[evilopportunityemployer]

My continued presence here is clearly a source of disappointment in your god for you.

<saturnschild>

[marcato]

You underestimate my faith. Like always.

Was Marco correct? Were you trapped inside that terrible hospital?

<BlackHat>

[evilopportunityemployer]

Only because the dear Fog is too incompetent to focus her powers.

Would you like to know what disappoints me, Aunamee?

<saturnschild>

[marcato]

If you're going to say something infuriating, you should just say it. You don't need to wait for my permission.

<BlackHat>

[evilopportunityemployer]

You.

Such wasted potential as a lapdog for an uncaring god.

<saturnschild>

[marcato]

Do you think my talents are wasted, Black Hat? I'm keeping this peninsula safe from foul men like you.

<BlackHat>

[evilopportunityemployer]

A cleaning boy for mummy’s mistakes. And a bang up job you’re doing, aren’t you?

No, what disappoints me is that you think you’re the hero.

<saturnschild>

[marcato]

I am the hero.

<BlackHat>

[evilopportunityemployer]

Of course. The hero who slaughtered a hundred souls for a god. The hero who murdered a child. The hero who cleans up undesirables. The hero who fucks a genocidal machine given flesh.

What a hero you are, doing all this good.

<saturnschild>

[marcato]

You can't win a war without death. And you can't make a hero without bloodshed.

You know nothing of goodness, Black Hat. You wouldn't even recognize it if it pulled all the bones out of your body, one by one.

<BlackHat>

[evilopportunityemployer]

Is that a threat, dear hero? How good of you.

Apparently you're unaware of the phrase 'know thy enemy.' I know very well what is good; I enjoy stamping it out whenever I spot it.

But what you do, no, that's not good at all. I know, because I would do all the same things. Have, in several cases, though I don’t dress it up in pretty words about the 'greater good' to make myself feel better.

I don’t have to. I know what I am.

<saturnschild>

[marcato]

[I know what I am. He feels his mouth twist into a sneer. His fingers start to tremble.

And then he slams the laptop shut. ]