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[sharpememory]

[Philip leans in close to the camera. At the very bottom of the screen, you can see the horrible, ropey scar that runs along the bottom of his neck.]

I want to talk to whoever is in charge here. Fed, magic wizard sea captain, whatever. We're gonna make a deal, because if we don't, things are going to get a bit unpleasant for everyone else around here.

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[buywithme]

Because he doesn't understand what he's losing. He doesn't remember enough to miss it.

[sharpememory]

Exactly, so it's not a problem.

[buywithme]

No, brother, it is a problem! It's like...

...It's like if someone was dying of some kind of terrible disease, and the cure had been posted to them by a kindly doctor, but then the cure was held by the post office for containing potential contaminants, and the person with the illness made their peace with death and passed away without even knowing that they only had to go to the post office, and they would have been fine!

[sharpememory]

Are you being serious right now? Or is that some sort of joke? Barron isn't dying. He's fine.

[buywithme]

Comrade, my point is that he's losing out on really important things, without even realising it. That still matters.

[sharpememory]

He's got everything important that he needs. It's only you that thinks that he doesn't.

[buywithme]

Comrade, do you really not care if one day, you have to remind him who you are? Or to know that he only knows you from a photograph with your name written next to it in a journal somewhere?

[sharpememory]

It's not gonna come to that. He'd have to use his power almost constantly to make that happen.

[buywithme]

He had to keep a note of his own name! And he did use his power almost constantly!

[sharpememory]

I'm pretty sure he didn't. You should check your facts. [Lies, lies.]

[buywithme]

Comrade, when he first got here he worked me immediately, then he worked a whole lot of people for reasons which I'm not even sure he knew. It's just his immediate response to everything!

[sharpememory]

Are you sure that really happened? It sounds like you're just being dramatic to me.

[buywithme]

Comrade, there are reasons why I am worried about your brother. This happening is one of them.

[sharpememory]

Shitty things happen to people all the time. You don't stop driving a car just because you might crash one day.

[buywithme]

No, but you stop if you go blind or lose muscle control or suffer from some other detriment which makes it almost certain that you will crash in the immanent future.

[sharpememory]

Again, so you should just never drive? Stay home and do nothing?

[buywithme]

There are other ways to get around, Comrade. There are other ways that he could live his life, and be happy, without having to do this to himself.

[sharpememory]

Yeah, but they aren't as good as what he does now. So he deals with it. We all deal with it.

[buywithme]

He's never tried any of those thing! None of you have! You just defaulted into lives of crimes!

[sharpememory]

There's no way that you can know that's true.

[buywithme]

It is true, and I do know it though. I don't think you fully understand what I'm doing here with your brother, but I'm trying to give him the chance to make something else of himself...

[sharpememory]

Barron has those chances anyway. He doesn't need you to give them to him.

[buywithme]

Not if he has no memoires, and not if... not if he's never been able to sit down and actually seriously think about doing something else.

[sharpememory]

You've got all the answers, haven't you? I bet you think you've got everything all worked out.

[buywithme]

I don't know what you've got against your brother getting a second chance in life!