GODLY AUDIENCES - NEWT GEISZLER

[divus]

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[divus]

[Ambition shrugs.]

I'm amazing at anything I do [except for being humble, apparently] so if I had been acting, I'd have been amazing at that too.

[she'll take that excuse, thanks.]

There are a lot of people playing pretend around here. The difference between you and them is you don't lie to yourself about who you are. They do.

[arockstar]

Hm. Lucky them.

[He says it flatly. Ambition meant it as a compliment, no doubt, but Newt doesn't feel good about it.]

I still don't know why I'm doing any of this. I'm not lying to myself, but that doesn't mean I understand it.

[divus]

Well, as long as you join the winning team, you can use your reward to understand it, if that's what you want.

[arockstar]

It's not.

[...Well.]

I don't know. That'd be a waste of a wish. Besides, they'd kill me if I went through all this trouble just to learn something I don't need to know.

[He pauses. Why did he say that? He frowns, swallows. Shakes it off.]

So the, uh. Fortune's killer. They're not someone putting on an act, or at least not on purpose. Is that what you're saying?

[divus]

[Ambition shrugs.]

I'm not going to explain it. That's for you to figure out. You're a smart man, aren't you?

[arockstar]

[He sighs. Figures.]

Fine. I guess we're done here, then.

[He turns to go, but then:]

Are you really afraid of Fortune's killer?

[divus]

...

As long as the people I've spoken to hold up their ends of some bargains, I don't have anything to be afraid of anymore.

[arockstar]

Hm. I hope you're right.

[But she's not called Ambition for nothing. He heads out.]