Because that's a thought that's crossed his mind, too, in the midst of actually sitting and thinking about that in the past, the recent past - short as those moments lasted - before he shut them down and simply kept his focus on any and everything else (and self sabotaging at every opportunity he didn't). And reading that statement over now ... reminds him of how far he's walked away from it, but also how close it all still feels.
Eventually, a careful reply comes. ]
I guess not.
As much of a gamble as that is.
But it works out for plenty of my people on PLANT.
If you end up going that route, I hope it likewise works out in that way.
[ He hates sending that back, because the well wish seems so empty. It's not, though, because Yzak is speaking from what he's seen around him in life. Plenty of things like that do work out. And PLANT has their regulations about it in either case. It's ... a norm there, for those who want specific things. Or those expected of specific things, like him. ]
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Because that's a thought that's crossed his mind, too, in the midst of actually sitting and thinking about that in the past, the recent past - short as those moments lasted - before he shut them down and simply kept his focus on any and everything else (and self sabotaging at every opportunity he didn't). And reading that statement over now ... reminds him of how far he's walked away from it, but also how close it all still feels.
Eventually, a careful reply comes. ]
I guess not.
As much of a gamble as that is.
But it works out for plenty of my people on PLANT.
If you end up going that route, I hope it likewise works out in that way.
[ He hates sending that back, because the well wish seems so empty. It's not, though, because Yzak is speaking from what he's seen around him in life. Plenty of things like that do work out. And PLANT has their regulations about it in either case. It's ... a norm there, for those who want specific things. Or those expected of specific things, like him. ]
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