None whatsoever!
She's in enormous danger, and I worry the Entity will try and turn her on me. She'll listen to you, though. I need you to help me.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?You need to tell her the truth. Keeping it under wraps is just going to prolong all this tension and danger. Sure, she'll be shaken by it, and maybe she'll hate me, but I can't lie to her just because it's gonna hurt. It's what's right.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Thank you...
Meanwhile, I need to finish off Operation Silver Ballet...
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Eh? Well uh...
-He skitters over his notes-
Well, none of them. Very few planets do. The pattern was pretty haphazard, though. Ice planets, desert planets, ocean planets. Some with atmosphere, some without.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?"Like ok, ok, Fermi had a point, but out of eight entire planets apparently wholly consumed, none of them had any life worth chucking a satellite at, you're telling me this thing can take the form of people, to the point of deception, and it wants to eat us all. I follow what you're saying so far, but something doesn't add up here."
Eires held up a finger for each point, tapping them for emphasis as they spoke.
-yeesh dude, them teeth-
[forum cryptid: it/it's]-He stared, blinking-
It... what are you saying? For something of that scale of consciousness, there's effectively no difference between a planet with dirt and slime, and a planet with four trillion sentients!
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?... Well, no. But I could step on one easily. And to take upon another layer of abstractationing, I'm member of a species that's slowly diluteriating the planet's delicate biosphere just in the course of living my life, something the ants can neither understand nor prevent.
If you can step on an ant without punishment, then the ant has a unspoken right to kill you back.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?"And if it's smart enough to take on human form, did you just try talking to it?"
Eires paused for a moment.
"Look, I know I sound absolutely, uh, batshit crazy, but this is the sort of place where logic takes a backseat while Chaos takes the wheel. At home or literally anywhere else I'd be right on board with you, no questions asked, but this place doesn't play by our rules and going around, shooting off rounds into the dark is almost guaranteed to get you in even worse trouble than whatever you were facing before."
[forum cryptid: it/it's]I can't know that for certain. Every day I let pass by is a gamble.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?... Alright. I'll talk to Ramona. Directly. But I'm not doing it unarmed.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?If I could modify my scanner to detect Boltzmann Particles, I could just point it at her and know for sure.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?

Eires raised an eyebrow.
"Seriously, no shit?"
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