Singularity point

[star_of_sad]

[Setsuko has something important to tell everyone, or at least people who know who she is and are willing to listen. It's not a broadcast, it's told in person.]

This... this has waited long enough.

The Meganoid trap made me realize that I cannot run away from it. I have to face the truth, and a part of that is telling others.

So, you see:

Those events when I, well, teleported, were not just a one time thing. On the Meganoid ship, it almost happened again. And before that... when I was very young, my family was killed. I should have been with my parents, but I wasn't. I woke up in an orphanage, in safety, a long distance away.

I think that whenever my life is really endangered, something whisks me away to safety. And that sounds like a really good ability, but... I do not know why it happens. I should be a normal everyday person, but I'm not. And this power affects others too, as the La Gias incident proved.

So I'm afraid. Afraid that if I continue piloting, one day I will throw my friends into vacuum or another universe or something. By saving myself, I will doom everyone else, without meaning to or even being able to control it.

I... just needed to get it off my chest. My apologies if this causes you to stop trusting me.

Comments

[keep_your_dignity]

OF WHAT?

[star_of_sad]

How would everyone react.

And also... of what it says about me.

[keep_your_dignity]

BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU SOMETHING STRANGE AND MAYBE INHUMAN AND DANGEROUS.

[star_of_sad]

Y, yes.

I mean no offense to members of Unity Group who are not humans themselves.

[Such as the one she's talking to.]

[keep_your_dignity]

AND OF COURSE IT DIDN'T CROSS THROUGH THAT EMPTY HEAD OF YOURS FOR A SINGLE SECOND THAT IF YOU REALLY WERE DANGEROUS SHUTTING UP WAS THE SINGLE WORST THING YOU COULD DO.

[star_of_sad]

It... did, actually.

My apologies. I have acted in a really stupid way.

[keep_your_dignity]

YES, YOU DID. [No, Kagura is not in the business of assuaging egos] YOU WERE COMPLETELY STUPID IN THAT WAY MOST PEOPLE ARE. PEOPLE ALWAYS DO SHIT LIKE THIS. AT LEAST YOU SPOKE UP BEFORE YOU WENT NUCLEAR, WHICH PUTS YOU AT LEAST A LITTLE AHEAD OF MOST PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL GIFTS WE'VE FOUND AND IS THE REASON I'M JUST BEING SARCASTIC AT YOU INSTEAD OF RIPPING YOU A NEW ASS.

NOT THAT YOU SHOULDN'T GET SOME DISCIPLINE FOR IT. BUT SINCE YOU CAME TO YOUR SENSES, I'LL LEAVE THE CHEWING OUT TO YOUR CAPTAIN, OHARA.

NOW, TO BUSINESS.

[star_of_sad]

Yes. I understand, ma'am.

... Business?

[keep_your_dignity]

I'M A GRAVEYARD OFFICER, OHARA. IN CASE NOBODY TOLD YOU, WE HAVE A VERY BIG INTEREST IN ANYTHING AND ANYONE RELATED TO MATTERS OF SPACE OR DIMENSION SHIFTING AND A HISTORY OF HIRING PEOPLE WITH UNUSUAL ABILITIES.

I'M OFFERING YOU TO JOIN. YOU WANT TO LEARN WHAT THE HELL MAKES THAT POWER OF YOURS TICK, WE ARE PROBABLY YOUR BEST CHOICE.

[star_of_sad]

Join... Graveyard? As in, right now, without any sort of recruitment procedure, or a qualifications exam?

[keep_your_dignity]

THAT DEPENDS. IF YOU WANT TO BE AN ACTUAL EXECUTOR YOU DO THE TESTS, SAME AS EVERYONE ELSE.

AND YOU'D BETTER SHIFT SOME GEARS, THEN, BECAUSE ACTING LIKE YOU HAVE THE TEMPERAMENT OF A HAMSTER LIKE YOU USUALLY DO, OHARA, ISN'T A QUALITY WE WANT IN PEOPLE WHO GO TOE TO TOE WITH ETERNAL KILLER ROBOTS WITH NOTHING BUT A COAT AND A GUN FAIRY.

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO FIGHT AND JUST HELP WITH TESTING, THOUGH, THINGS ARE EASIER.

[star_of_sad]

That is... a very big decision. I don't know can I even do it, while I still have my contract as part of Glory Stars?

...

I really need to think about this. Can I give it some time before I respond to your offer, Major?