[His expression shifts and changes as she speaks, bitter-edged for a moment at perceived implications before understanding once again. There's a dry half-smile and an even thinner laugh.]
Don't mistake me. If things were so simple as a desire to die, I wouldn't have made any efforts to keep myself out of this damned jail.
[Especially given the lack of restfulness any death here would provide. Still, he considers Harrow sharp and perceptive and someone who exists perhaps a little too closely to himself in certain ways, and he doesn't particularly want to reveal too much here, so he moves on.]
But I do understand the frustration. I have my doubts that you'll be seeing any further accidental deaths from here on, but it may be worth bringing this discussion to the rest of them. Even if they're largely idiots, it would still be satisfying to see them break things instead of simply following the set rules.
True enough. Maybe I'll work my way up to toppling him as overseer of this place, given a few millennia or so.
[He's not unused to endless swaths of time or goals that last for ages, at least, so it's something enough to keep himself entertained with, even though it's clear he's half-joking.]
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Don't mistake me. If things were so simple as a desire to die, I wouldn't have made any efforts to keep myself out of this damned jail.
[Especially given the lack of restfulness any death here would provide. Still, he considers Harrow sharp and perceptive and someone who exists perhaps a little too closely to himself in certain ways, and he doesn't particularly want to reveal too much here, so he moves on.]
But I do understand the frustration. I have my doubts that you'll be seeing any further accidental deaths from here on, but it may be worth bringing this discussion to the rest of them. Even if they're largely idiots, it would still be satisfying to see them break things instead of simply following the set rules.
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[if anything, it makes her angry to watch everyone pretend something happened to all the people executed.]
If a more thrilling competition is the goal, there are ways to give him one.
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[Said on a little huff of a breath, a barely-there, not-quite laugh that isn't accompanied by a smile.]
I'd love to join you, but things do take strange turns.
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[He's not unused to endless swaths of time or goals that last for ages, at least, so it's something enough to keep himself entertained with, even though it's clear he's half-joking.]