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[bookishnettler]

I'm sorry it's been several days, community! Schoolwork is keeping me dreadfully busy-- not that I'm complaining, of course. But I just had to come and talk about something strange that's happened. Harry and Ron don't remember this place at all! I know this happens sometimes when people leave, but they didn't forget right away, only just now. Has this happened to anybody else's friends?

Comments

[bookishnettler]

There's nothing wrong with old. Old books are so very often the best.

And you write! What sorts of things?

[former_endboss]

Old to me, I've been keeping company with the same old books and Shureia won't get new ones.

Fiction and political treatises mostly. Nothing I'm willing to share over the Network.

[bookishnettler]

Why not?

[former_endboss]

I hardly know you. And I doubt my politics are relevant to your politics.

[bookishnettler]

Are they secret, then? That's a bit silly, isn't it. Most treatises are meant to be shared.

[text btw]

[former_endboss]

Unless there is a artificially created underclass of enslaved magic users in your society, they hold no relevance to you.

[text]

[bookishnettler]

I'm sorry. That's awful.

[text]

[former_endboss]

Sorry hardly matters at this point. The revolution was fought a long time ago.

[text]

[bookishnettler]

But it's still horrible.

If you ever change your mind, I'd really like to read them.

[text]

[former_endboss]

Hmmm. I'll think about it. I don't have much else to do, life in the oubliette is incredibly boring.

[text]

[bookishnettler]

Where is that?

[text]

[former_endboss]

Oubliette is a synonym for a dungeon-the kind you put a prisoner in without including any way to extract them. Though in my case, they had to build it around me.

[text]

[bookishnettler]

Why are you in prison?

[text]

[former_endboss]

Because there is no justice in the universe.

[text]

[bookishnettler]

So you didn't do anything wrong, then? Were you falsely accused?

[text]

[former_endboss]

Is it wrong to rise up against enslavers and those who admire them? Apparently it is if you loose.

[text]

[bookishnettler]

I don't think it is at all.

I'm sorry.

[text]

[former_endboss]

You don't have to apologize if you aren't one of them. But the victors will always condemn the losers and write them into history as villains.

[text]

[bookishnettler]

But if you're only trying to keep yourself from being enslaved, surely others will understand that.

[text]

[former_endboss]

Would it surprise you to know that to the survivors of the war, I am now known as an actual demon who made war on the goddess?

[text]

[bookishnettler]

Well...

I don't know. I don't know your world. But there have to be some people on your side.

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[former_endboss]

And just who would side with a demon? Even the most sweet and even tempered, which I am not.

[text]

[bookishnettler]

You shouldn't be enslaved just because of your species. It's absolutely barbaric.

[text]

[former_endboss]

We are artifice and science, made things, and a massive investment. It was inevitable that humans would view us as chattel.