More than one. And, sure, once you all pick a leader for us, we're sworn to accept it, and not to do something else like this to pick a leader.
You all will be going home after this, but there will be people living in the world we make. My hope is that I'll be able to make a world where they can live peacefully. But if some of the others win, well... a good chunk of them weren't opposed to the "playing games with lives" part of this. I'd rather not have them in charge of a world people are going to be living in.
[ That same agonising little flutter, this time spreading its wings further, brushing her veins - injuring them. ]
Even people who... who want to hurt others?
[ Ragou, for example, had lived the way he wanted to. His power and wealth had protected him from the consequences of sacrificing people - children, even - to monsters. For sport.
She has to ask the question. She's not naive enough to assume it can go unasked, not anymore. ]
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You all will be going home after this, but there will be people living in the world we make. My hope is that I'll be able to make a world where they can live peacefully. But if some of the others win, well... a good chunk of them weren't opposed to the "playing games with lives" part of this. I'd rather not have them in charge of a world people are going to be living in.
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[ Briefly, a very precise look. Her heart flutters in her breast, the precusor to - not panic, not exactly, but something alike. ]
Do you wish to be in charge?
[ A follow up - ] What would you do?
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[Sincerity says this ... sincerely. I wish I could think of a better way to phrase that.]
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[ That same agonising little flutter, this time spreading its wings further, brushing her veins - injuring them. ]
Even people who... who want to hurt others?
[ Ragou, for example, had lived the way he wanted to. His power and wealth had protected him from the consequences of sacrificing people - children, even - to monsters. For sport.
She has to ask the question. She's not naive enough to assume it can go unasked, not anymore. ]
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[Sincerity was not including "corrupt murderers" in the equation.
That awkward moment when a god is somehow more naive than Estelle.]