[stolen journal 22||voice]

[teenagebeefswelling]

[Once again, Leto is seemingly talking to himself. Will he ever learn when his journal is on?]

No, she hasn't used some 'thinking machine version of the voice of command on me'. I'm immune to voice, don't you remember?

....

I think you don't understand.

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I should have known better than to trust my own judgement. I think I rushed into this.

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Jehanne Butler, you're a hero, but you've overstepped your bounds here, no matter how good your intentions. I am perfectly capable of having you excised from my consciousness if...

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I am not angry with you. But don't come until I ask for you. I'm not Alia...or my time's Alia, anyway.

....

[There's the standard shifting sounds as he finds the journal and speaks into it.]

I have made a terrible mistake. I have misjudge immensely.

You know who you are. You showed me mercy. You had an opportunity to kill me while I was unaware but you didn't.

You are more human than many here.

Vexen, you were right. Somebody built the morality core.

Comments

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

You really need to watch your journal more closely, Leto.

[goldenpathredux.livejournal.com]

I am having trouble with technology lately, it seems...

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

This is technology?

[goldenpathredux.livejournal.com]

What else would you call it?

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Some weird-ass magic book.

[goldenpathredux.livejournal.com]

Right, running on a sophisticated spell that just happens to perfectly mimic a broadcast and encryption distrans or other such piece of machinery.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

It's paper that transmits messages. It's magic, not technology.

[goldenpathredux.livejournal.com]

You see the unexplainable. I see an advanced but usable distrans.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Okay, let's just- I get the feeling we're not going to agree here, so.

[chosenheroine.livejournal.com]

Hm. Are you mad or simply careless?

[goldenpathredux.livejournal.com]

Probably more of the former.

[chosenheroine.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Finally I can agree on a subject with someone here.

[goldenpathredux.livejournal.com]

I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is
southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.

[chosenheroine.livejournal.com]

it's from Hamlet

[goldenpathredux.livejournal.com]

Madness this is, but there is method in it.

never read that one.

[chosenheroine.livejournal.com]

As many claim, and yet all they do is lay waste to everything they see.

[goldenpathredux.livejournal.com]

Fitting. My homeworld was considered a wasteland, useful only for the product it produces.

[chosenheroine.livejournal.com]

I care not for the state of your homeworld.

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[shieldinside.livejournal.com]

...

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[goldenpathredux.livejournal.com]

I judged you by the standards of Thinking Machines from my universe. But you are obviously different.

I am very sorry.

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[shieldinside.livejournal.com]

... it is good to hear that you are sorry, Leto-san... but I cannot trust you on that alone... Haseo-san went to fight you on his own will, but you still fought and injured him.

And there are many others here that will not trust you because of what you have done... I am not sure what Leto-san can do to fix it...

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[goldenpathredux.livejournal.com]

Fix it? This is not a broken piece of machinery. I do not expect your trust and you would be a naive idiot to give it to me. Nevertheless it is a thing that had to be said, even if it makes no difference.

Haseo and I were injured in a duel we both agreed to. He will be fine before two days have passed.

Perhaps it is good that I am not trusted. It seems I am more danger to the people around me than I thought...

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[shieldinside.livejournal.com]

Perhaps... Leto-san needs to understand what it is to be human as much as I do.

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[goldenpathredux.livejournal.com]

I think you must have started out as a piece of machinery and became more human over the course of time.

I am heading in the opposite direction.