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[lingeringhope]

It is safe within our temples. Go there if you need protection from - whatever this is.

And to the one who has caused it, I certainly hope you are pleased with yourself.

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[lingeringhope]

You can feel free to stop eating the food I provide, living in the houses I have provided, wearing the clothes I provide, or drinking the water I have purified.

[wormintheglass]

If I felt free to be anywhere else except your cage, why yes, Hope dear. I could do all of those things.

[lingeringhope]

As I have said many times before: this is not my cage. I did not bring you here, and I cannot send you home.

[wormintheglass]

Then you needn't pout when we dislike it, need you?

[lingeringhope]

I believe you are far more adept at that than I am.

[wormintheglass]

[Bianca peals out into unexpected laughter.]

Oh, well done, Hope dear! You're actually beginning to get the hang of this, aren't you?

[lingeringhope]

The hang of what?

[Whoosh. Right over his head.]

[wormintheglass]

you tried

[lingeringhope]

I always try.

[wormintheglass]

I've rarely met anyone more trying, Hope dear.

[lingeringhope]

You haven't met Fear yet?

[wormintheglass]

Fear is extremely annoying. But his needs are at least honest and straightforward. Feeling hope in a place where I'm trapped like an animal is trying to sleep comfortably on a pile of broken promises, Hope dear; I find it hard to delude myself sufficiently to make it work.

[lingeringhope]

You don't need to make yourself feel anything. None of you seem to have control over what you feel - that is why Fear is so effective.