[There are many ways in which that wasn't an answer to her question, but she accepts it regardless.
She didn't ask in hopes of getting an answer, anyway.]
To simply do what you are given, be it duty or command, is to be an automaton. Perhaps that's funny, coming from a robot. [a little smile, vague] But we were all created for a purpose. It is simply that some are given purpose and meaning after, while others find meaning before purpose.
Will you see them again? Those who gave you meaning.
[She'll file that away for later. They're still mostly in the dark about how the gods came to be and how they came to be here -- what their future will be like beyond the end of this contest.
It's something to consider, alongside everything else. Her answer to the question, though, is unhesitating.]
Eternity.
The beauty of living things freed from time, and death, and all other constraints that may dim their light. The beauty of infinite possibility.
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[There are many ways in which that wasn't an answer to her question, but she accepts it regardless.
She didn't ask in hopes of getting an answer, anyway.]
To simply do what you are given, be it duty or command, is to be an automaton. Perhaps that's funny, coming from a robot. [a little smile, vague] But we were all created for a purpose. It is simply that some are given purpose and meaning after, while others find meaning before purpose.
Will you see them again? Those who gave you meaning.
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What do you believe in, Luna, if I may ask?
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It's something to consider, alongside everything else. Her answer to the question, though, is unhesitating.]
Eternity.
The beauty of living things freed from time, and death, and all other constraints that may dim their light. The beauty of infinite possibility.