7. Public + messages to David & Iris

[exnihilo]

[Private to David 8]

I wasn't any different there. That I could tell.



[Public, voice]

How many people have you been? How many people have you pretended to be?

[She's not sure where exactly the distinction is between these things.]

You may estimate.



[Private to Iris]

I'd like to be allowed in the labs. I've been researching hydroponics.

Comments

[darknessb4me]

A few million.

[exnihilo]

...how? I mean, how would you even have the time?

[darknessb4me]

That was at once.

A plague was deliberately spread in my world. Very deadly. Everyone it killed came back as part of the same being, one will spread out over every body it could acquire.

[exnihilo]

[She shudders. That creature sounds very like one of her gods.]

And you were - part of it?

[darknessb4me]

I started it.

[exnihilo]

Why?

[darknessb4me]

Because I could. Because I needed the power to accomplish a goal. Because I wanted them dead.

[exnihilo]

Did you know it would happen like that?

[darknessb4me]

Yes.