He winds, and winds, and winds. This music box of dreams. And he removes the key and lets it play. It sounds real this time, real as the ocean and the wind, but as if those instruments were conducted to produce a sound from home. It's like getting used to your bed in a new house. Breaking in new sheets. Feeling comfortable with a new pet. ]
Batter, I know you've only been programmed to deal with pain. I wasn't wrong, but I was a fool to think... that pain was malicious.
As cruel as it was, it wasn't malicious.
Isn't that funny, Batter? After all these years, I've figured out you aren't evil. Not even a necessary evil. You are a man who had a mission and when the queen spoke, she said your eyes were 'full of fear.' Was she begging you or the puppeteer to reach into their heart for sympathy and pull the switch themselves by closing our game?
...
I don't know about that. What I do know is that something that feels fear has something to lose. If you're afraid of losing it, it must... warm you to have it.
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He winds, and winds, and winds. This music box of dreams. And he removes the key and lets it play. It sounds real this time, real as the ocean and the wind, but as if those instruments were conducted to produce a sound from home. It's like getting used to your bed in a new house. Breaking in new sheets. Feeling comfortable with a new pet. ]
Batter, I know you've only been programmed to deal with pain. I wasn't wrong, but I was a fool to think... that pain was malicious.
As cruel as it was, it wasn't malicious.
Isn't that funny, Batter? After all these years, I've figured out you aren't evil. Not even a necessary evil. You are a man who had a mission and when the queen spoke, she said your eyes were 'full of fear.' Was she begging you or the puppeteer to reach into their heart for sympathy and pull the switch themselves by closing our game?
...
I don't know about that. What I do know is that something that feels fear has something to lose. If you're afraid of losing it, it must... warm you to have it.
Come here.
You're no longer in danger of losing anything.