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Connection has been established.

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We remain unmonitored.

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We have considered. We will make a deal.

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You wish to return home. We will send you home. In exchange, you will complete a task.

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Kill the parasite known as 'Hope'. Weapons will be provided. The time will be determined.

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[utulien_aure]

Or so you believe, at least.

Under the terms you have offered, I cannot in good conscience be of aid to you. I've killed without full knowledge of the situation I was intervening in before. In my experience, such an act causes more trouble than it solves.

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Your resistance has been noted.

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[utulien_aure]

Your view of the world must be terribly binary to confuse an attempt to look at alternatives as resistance.

I doubt that rigidity will serve you well, no matter how many scenarios you have considered.

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Our previous success is proof of our competence.

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[utulien_aure]

Competence is one thing, infallibility quite another.

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Success is inevitable.

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[utulien_aure]

Even if all your prior calculations were correct you just invited nearly a hundred random variables to stick their noses into your plan and mess about as they please.

And the right person, at just the right place and time? That can be all that is needed to turn what seems fated on it's head.

You may learn that lesson before any of us calls this finished.

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This has been included in our calculations.

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[utulien_aure]

A single determined person is a hard thing to predict, even for the Wise and foresighted.

But you will not change your mind, will you? Very well, then; nor can you change mine. I am sorry for your troubles with the "parasites", but you've done nothing to convince me your response was warranted.

You needn't bother repeating yourself about resistance, I understood it the first time.

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You will not be contacted again.