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[Sorry, Peter, he has a lot of bitterness and exhaustion built up about this. It's hard to rein it in when it comes up.]

Seven years.

I think it comes down to choice. It isn't a question of what is morally right or wrong, it's a question of what's personally right or wrong. Some folks will never be happy here, and I can't blame them. They should be able to leave. The thing is so far the only times we've ever been able to truly access our native universes have been when piggybacking off the Fog's power. I am very confident that unless something radical changes that none of us are currently aware of, her power is the only way out.

What I can tell you about her is this: in seven years she has never presented herself as anything other than what she is. She has been honest about what she wants from us, and she has been consistent in her actions. She has never pretended to be benevolent. She has never skirted around the conditions of monsterhood or hidden them in fine print. I believe she truly does think that what she's given us is a gift, and I think she's too far removed from the mortal experience to understand why for some it's anything but. In a way she wants the same thing you do, and the same thing I do: she wants us to thrive, and to her that means having the freedom and power to follow our own internal compass rather than being a slave to someone else's.

I'll illustrate something for you. One of the portals out, I built, up to the prototype stage. I told her early on I was working on it, and that it would feel wrong to me not to when it was a project I was capable of. She gave me her blessing. She did not try to stop me. What made me stop was the people who kept picking at me and picking at me for not being good enough, moral enough. For not fixing it fast enough, in a manner they personally approved of.

The thing making it hard to thrive here isn't her.

[He definitely has been holding this in a while. Peter still takes his time to reply.]

I am genuinely glad you are happy here. Even if other people probably think seven years is a bad thing here. I'm finding happiness here too, even with the rougher parts. I can't really say that to anyone because of I guess the stigma of it. Its easier to be angry and lash out than it is to really live sometimes.

Thank you for telling me that. I still intend to do more research so I have a rounded idea of what the gods are like. This is helpful to me since I'm starting out with not a lot. I don't know how I feel about the fog, nor elias to be completely honest.

Hopefully, I can find a way to help people here. It's going to take a lot of work, but I'm dedicated to trying to achieve it safely.

If you have any particular questions I can give you at least one viewpoint's answer. I was one of Elias's two first priests, and since leaving him I've ascended as far up the Fog's ranks as you can without getting the title. I would like to think I'm qualified to give opinions on both of them.

What I will say either way is that you deserve to be happy and you deserve to be allowed to be happy. The folks who genuinely believe that's a bad thing aren't worth the time you'd spend worrying about them.

I'll likely come back to ask you more questions later. I don't want to bombard you with a lot of questions all at once since it's a lot all at once and we're all just trying to live our own lives. You never really know what is going to happen in the next few weeks, much less over the next month.

I'm also pretty sure you've had so many people walk up to you before demanding information without really caring about how that affects you.

Thank you. I'll try to keep that in mind. It can feel hard with how angry people are.

It's the opposite, actually. I've had so many people get snappy with me for trying to provide them with information that I've stopped bothering to give it. Being asked politely is a nice change of pace.

I want to hear everything. Even if it challenges me and what I believe in. The truth isn't always what you want it to be. Nor is it ever simple

I'm sorry people have gotten snappy with you. I can't... even wrap my head around it.

I can. Folks like to have blind hope. They like to have righteous anger and they like to believe that they'll be the ones to fix the problem and that it'll be easy because they're on the good and right side of things. This requires believing that everybody else has just never tried, or never tried hard enough. I've had people say as much to me before, that the only reason we're all still here is that no one really tried hard enough to get out. It requires not knowing exactly how many avenues have been pursued already and proven too dangerous or too difficult or simply dead ends, because that cuts down the options to a much smaller pool and that makes them confront the fact that we're already at the bottom of the barrel. It requires knowing very little about the actual mechanics of what they're dealing with, because knowing the details makes the task appear more difficult than simply being right can overcome.

People don't want to know. They don't want to hear reason. They don't want advice. They want to be right. I was the same way when I first showed up. It's why I signed up with Elias. His whole platform's built on vague promises of 'helping', and never you mind how he intends to do it. He's right, so questioning him means you're wrong, and people who are wrong get punished.

Its easier to be right, than actively deal with the fact this isn't an easy situation for any of us. I want to at least learn more about what has and hasn't been done, so I'm not repeating all of the same mistakes again.

I'm only... well, human in spirit. I know I won't handle things perfectly, but I can try to negate what I can as I look into so many things.

Its probably why so many people do align themselves with Elias, or the fog. Because having a side is safer than being on your own. Elias in particular promises to get people home, but never really offers much else.

No he doesn't. What he promises is defeating the Fog and he lets you fill in the blanks with whatever you think that implies, unless he's changed his tune since I was with him. He doesn't care about sending us home, he cares about using us as toy soldiers in his war against her, that's what his actions have shown over and over and over again. He'll say whatever he thinks you want to hear to get you to go along with him, because he's got the mind of a child and he can't grasp the concept of consequences or collateral damage. Folks have been giving him everything he wants and letting him lead them around by the nose for years so now he's grown accustomed to it.

The Fog has always followed through on her word. I'm not with her to have a side. There wouldn't be a fight in the first place if people would stop treating a child like a competent and objective leader. I'm with her because she said this second chance was what I made of it, and I made something of it, and she's never ordered me to do anything or thrown a tantrum when I told her no.

I personally haven't joined him or Fog god. I'm going by what I've heard from followers. So, thank you for the correction.

Has Elias had many tantrums?

I'm glad the fog has been kind to you and kept her word. I personally am not as trusting, but as I stated before, I haven't spoken with her. Its better I not judge before I know more.

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