have the light of day obscured

[msglam]

You guys captured Purity?

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[first_and_final]

That sounds wonderful.

[msglam]

Yup! And I'd pet you and your adorable fluffy tail and we'd kiss and talk about how we're going to save the world and that'd make you feel better about stuff.

[first_and_final]

Okay, you're winning me over.

[msglam]

Good!

[first_and_final]

I'm glad I know you.

[msglam]

It was surely auspicious in several ways for you to suddenly appear in my room.

[first_and_final]

Of all the people whose rooms I could have suddenly appeared in, I'm definitely pleased with the one I got.

[msglam]

Mmhm, I'm definitely pleased with that, too.

[first_and_final]

I suspected you might be.

[msglam]

Anyway, I wanted to ask earlier but forgot, and if you don't wanna talk about this subject anymore that's fine, but why don't they let you apologize to Purity?

[first_and_final]

Apparently no one's supposed to talk to her? Which sounds cruel to me, but it might just have been an excuse concealing some other, less cruel reason.

[msglam]

Oh. It makes sense, it's probably to protect her civilian identity.

[first_and_final]

That sounds stupid. Can't they just give her a mask?

[msglam]

Well, maybe? That's actually a good idea, but if it's not the civilian identity thing then I dunno. Maybe they're just evil or something.

[first_and_final]

I don't think they're actually evil. I do think they're neither as smart nor as good as they like to think.

[msglam]

That's probably true of most people.

[first_and_final]

Not me, though.

[msglam]

I sure hope you're right ^^ You'll never see me saying that, though.

[first_and_final]

No?

[msglam]

Nope! I'm already too overconfident for my tastes, saying I'm exactly as smart or as good as I think I am won't actually help.

[first_and_final]

But if you think you're less smart than you think you are, don't you end up in fact thinking you're less smart than you thought you thought you were...? Where does it end?

[msglam]

Well, in theory the feedback loop could be dampened and it'd end at a finite specific quantity, but in practice I basically just consciously keep all my unconscious thoughts about my smartness and goodness in check.

[first_and_final]

As long as it works for you, I guess.

[msglam]

Not very well, actually! But it's better than the alternative.

[first_and_final]

That'll have to do.