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How are you to do that in a few weeks? I suppose that they intend for you to socialize.

[Silco had a cause, and Levi was basically part of it now anyway.]

Were there any changes in his speech patterns during the brief time you saw what lay under the mask of his?

may 10th. i guess they do.

[Surely Silco's cause we a good one to see through.]

no, it was just for like a second or two. it only happened once.

well, i can't remember talking to the council at all, so i guess it could have happened then too.

[After last month such memory fuckery doesn't seem surprising. He still doesn't like it, though.]

So what is it you want to believe in, Levi? Surely there is some campaign that has or will stir your heart and mind.

[Silco believes so, and that's really what he thinks matters.]

I appreciate you bringing this information to me. It may stand to reason that this new prison has some issues to work out. No one remembers talking to the Council. That remains consistent at least.

i. i don't know. i just want to be left alone.
but i don't think this place will let me.

there's barely been any time since aldrip turned into this, maybe whoever's in charge is still getting used to it.

that makes sense. can't risk someone remembering your voice or face.

Then your choice is to make this place leave you alone, but that will come with a fight, now won't it? Many of us would like to simply be left alone and perhaps that is the cause we can all be apart of. If their histories are any indication, there have been others in other cities. We have few details of those accounts. We can assume they were failures. Or perhaps the Council themselves don't exist as people. They are like Jerry, wires and beams pushing a set agenda.

yeah. i guess it would...i know there are people who want to rebel or fight against the council but i have no idea how they'd do that. aside from just blowing shit up, since that didn't seem to change much. they're still in charge.

there have been other councils?

[He heard something about a desert town or something, hadn't he?]

i guess that's possible too. or they are people but they're not in whatever this world is, just telling it what to do and sending messages.

A cause isn't only about blowing up buildings and killing people; it is about gathering strength in numbers to make the cost of repression too high to want to continue. And then we lobby, we organize, we protest, and we make them pay for every moment they meddle with our lives. We stand together for our goal. Apparently, but scant evidence of the dynamic exists.

[Someone would dig up such information and if history had any bearing on people, they would be willing to share it all.]

We could be an experiment in a glass enclosure drinking drug infused water.

i can't imagine that's what they had in mind when they gave me this task. but i don't care. i'll help if you'll have me.

i think it's more likely they're running things from outside. why put themselves in danger by getting closer to us? that'd just be stupid.

[That makes it sound kind of helpless, though.]

but if thats the case, maybe we can cut them off.

...sorry, i don't really have any ideas here. this is all over my head.

You're joining a cause; if what you wrote to me is true, the Council gives you the freedom to choose what that cause is. Now you are part of my cause, and together we will see the cause to its conclusion one way or another. Beyond the borders of the known land that we have access to, you mean? Glass cage indeed.

[It wouldn't surprise him. He had thought about it.]

We need more information and alter the necessary plans to fortify our cause.

[He'll probably try to find a shorter term cause to go after too, just in case. But he'd throw his full weight into this one. Being brought here to suffer wasn't that terrible, but messing with his memories and creating that fake him? That was too far.]

i will. i promise.

yeah, something like that. i don't really get it, but if they can change everything like they did they might not even be within it.

[Like gods and there other realms or something. Rher's realm interacted with the earth, but it was definitely a different place.]

okay. if i find anything i'll let you know.

[He probably wouldn't go looking, but he hadn't been looking for whatever the hell happened to Jerry.]

[For now, Levi was replying with the types of words that he wanted to hear. Time would tell if that loyalty would match up, but he had a good feeling about this one. It would take work on his head to solidify it, of course, but this was what they both potentially needed.]

I believe you. They are our overseers. They are aware of everything that we do even such action done in secret, and they punish us for such things. They also have a startling lack of interpreting nuance. Yes, and I will pass useful information to you in return.

[Like a partnership. Except, he determines what is useful enough to be passed along, of course.]

they might know what we do and say here, but i don't think they know that much about us before that. i'm guilty of my crime but only once. they acted like i'd done it again and again.

[Hes fine with that, then he doesn't have to figure out whats useful and what isn't. He's not the ideas guy.]

I expect you are right about that. Our crimes seem arbitrary for some and ridiculous for others. I believe it is an excuse to maintain the lie of our being here.

that would make sense.

It is only a matter of time before we get to the bottom of this situation. They barely have control as it is.

[He's not sure about them barely having control, but he agreed most times it seemed they either didn't or didn't care to.]

i worked as a sniper, i know how to observe and wait for an opening. we'll just need to do that.

Good. I look forward to see your skills in action. I expect they will be impressive.

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