[Law listens patiently, comparing the information against what he already knows or at least suspects. It matches up, and he's not entirely surprised.]
Having been through a genocidal massacre before, I can verify your assessment. [and thanks, Sorrow, for the general mood reminding him oh-so-much of that moment in his life] There's no choice in it, fighting must be done in order to do more than survive. But doing to the Null what they've done to you isn't necessarily a sound goal, either.
[he slides his tattooed hands into his jeans pockets, trying to subconsciously fight against the temple's influence. If he's going to feel things to Sorrow's benefit, he'd better get something out of it, first]
I gather that they're not going to stop until you're dead, so it seems like destroying all of them in turn is the only way to survive. But there has to be another outcome, or several if we open our minds to all possibilities. Setting aside for a moment the Null capacity to be a bunch of whiny little shits who can't understand compromise... [ahem] ...they really are terrified, for lack of a better word, of catching emotions. But the way they behave is as if they've never encountered a species, outside of yourselves and your original hosts, capable of emotion. That much was obvious seeing how they reacted to us resisting their kill-list. It makes me wonder just what they'd do if they realized that exposure to emotions could come from anywhere, and not just your kind.
Were we merely passing through and seeing your conflict from the outside, I wouldn't give a shit what happened to either you or the Null. But by forming a symbiotic relationship with us, you've involved us, so I can't just wash my hands of the whole affair. Protecting you, and solving the penultimate problem, is the only way to preserve our own survival as well as get ourselves home. [his eyes narrow slightly] I wanted to see if I could find you another food source, but that may take too long. It sounds to me like finding a reason for the Null to cease their pursuit is a shorter path to our mutual goal.
[which is giving him ideas for what to do with Name, now, but shhh he doesn't know anything about the rogue Null nope no sir]
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Having been through a genocidal massacre before, I can verify your assessment. [and thanks, Sorrow, for the general mood reminding him oh-so-much of that moment in his life] There's no choice in it, fighting must be done in order to do more than survive. But doing to the Null what they've done to you isn't necessarily a sound goal, either.
[he slides his tattooed hands into his jeans pockets, trying to subconsciously fight against the temple's influence. If he's going to feel things to Sorrow's benefit, he'd better get something out of it, first]
I gather that they're not going to stop until you're dead, so it seems like destroying all of them in turn is the only way to survive. But there has to be another outcome, or several if we open our minds to all possibilities. Setting aside for a moment the Null capacity to be a bunch of whiny little shits who can't understand compromise... [ahem] ...they really are terrified, for lack of a better word, of catching emotions. But the way they behave is as if they've never encountered a species, outside of yourselves and your original hosts, capable of emotion. That much was obvious seeing how they reacted to us resisting their kill-list. It makes me wonder just what they'd do if they realized that exposure to emotions could come from anywhere, and not just your kind.
Were we merely passing through and seeing your conflict from the outside, I wouldn't give a shit what happened to either you or the Null. But by forming a symbiotic relationship with us, you've involved us, so I can't just wash my hands of the whole affair. Protecting you, and solving the penultimate problem, is the only way to preserve our own survival as well as get ourselves home. [his eyes narrow slightly] I wanted to see if I could find you another food source, but that may take too long. It sounds to me like finding a reason for the Null to cease their pursuit is a shorter path to our mutual goal.
[which is giving him ideas for what to do with Name, now, but shhh he doesn't know anything about the rogue Null nope no sir]