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[arithmethodical]

[ She debates for a bit whether or not to do this with voice or audio, but she feels too shaky for either, and eventually loses patience with herself and the debate. ]

I've been asked by some friends of his to share information that Vision found about the ritual and how it might go. Might have to go.

I'm pretty sure we're all familiar with the prophecy by now, but if not, you can look at it here.

Vision found three things. First is that this thing, the ritual, the 12th of November kept coming up as the most significant time to do it.

Second is that the more imPorts who are there, the better chance it has of working. So show up if you can.

The third is the bell. There are two in Jeopardy it could apply to. The first one is the most obvious choice, the bell in the cathedral of the spider cult church. The other one is the Justice Building, which is apparently pretty much decorative. He wasn't sure if we're supposed to ring the bell at 3am on the night of the full moon, or if we ring the bell to get things started.

I did some of my own research, too.

[ There's a pause here, while she puts together her thoughts. ]

The rock known as the Altar out in the National Park near Jeopardy has no apparent connection to anything. No important myths, no significant legends. There's whispers about it being a place where people used to be sacrificed to guarantee crop growth, but I couldn't find anything else tying it to the prophecy.

The other thing. The twins. I tried to find out what I could about them. Their names are Layla and Sally Clapp. They aren't mystical. They're just two ordinary little girls. They dress differently so people will tell them apart, even though their parents want them to dress the same. They like spiders. They read books about them. They play kid games and have kid imaginations.

So who knows if they actually saw something or not. Who knows if they have some mystical connection to what's happening. They're a convenient fit to the prophecy. That's all.

Comments

[hatejakku]

Sorry. I was under the assumption that we shouldn't hunt down children because encrypted messages said it might prevent a supposed god from destroying the planet.

[photophobic]

Outright denial. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised. You don't have to think about the hard choices if you can simply pretend they don't exist. All of that is someone else's problem. You're just thinking of the children.

> private

[hatejakku]

really

you're really ready to kill children because some guy told you so

i knew you could be cruel but i didn't think you were gullible

but what do i know

you worked for snoke for how long

[photophobic]

Do you think I would be this concerned if I was relying on nothing but a coded message from the OTO.

[hatejakku]

if you tell me that the force told you to kill some kids, then im giving up on this conversation

[photophobic]

Of course. Because why would you believe in the Force when it isn't convenient to.

But no. I haven't been chasing Force visions. Five minutes spent on the Network will provide you with multiple sources that all agree this ritual is the key. Do you need me to list them for you? Or are you capable of looking beyond your need for there to be an easier solution without my help.

[hatejakku]

[ He's not even going to entertain half of that. ]

None of it's valid enough. None of them have enough proof. All of you are the ones that want the easy solution. Sacrifice a couple of lives and everyone else should be fine? Trust these so-called gods blindly that they'll even give enough of a damn about us to keep us alive if this works at all?

If they were your children, would you trust your sources enough to put them on an altar? Would you put Ronan there?

[photophobic]

I did. You are breathing. Right now. Because I did.

[hatejakku]

That happened because you refused to try anything else. You wanted to kill Poe before you could accept that there might be another way, that you might not know everything. You refused to look for options that weren't his life or the lives of everyone. The easy way.

Is that what this is coming down to? Repeating our mistakes?

[photophobic]

[The strange thing is, Kylo had almost expected better. Almost. But they never learn. Any of them.]

I spent every last piece of myself looking for other options. I gave you until you were dreaming the end of existence to give me any other choice. Because it isn't easy. To look at the truth.

Like this one. This truth you can't face. Which do you think I would have found easier. Taking his life to save all of yours. Or taking all of yours to save his. Both would have worked. And I knew it. Look at it. Which. You know what I am. What I can do. Which would I have chosen. If it was about easy.

[hatejakku]

You would have enjoyed killing all of us. Much more than you would have enjoyed talking, apparently.

There could have been another way but we never even looked for it. Just like now, all of you cowards refuse to look. You just want it over with.

All he wanted to do was talk to you.

[ Look who's not over that traumatic memory yet. ]

[photophobic]

You really don't know. Do you. Why he was there. Any more than you know anything about me. You have no idea.

Dameron came to the Meadows to tell me to kill Ronan. Ask him. He won't deny it.

[hatejakku]

You're wrong and you damn well know it.

People like you don't change. I'm through with this.

[ Because if he's trying to lie this hard to himself, there's no middle ground to find here. Finn won't reply to any other texts. ]