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[versusnurture]

Who: Abigail & open!
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: None unless, you know. You wanna. She's on the Iskaulit I guess.
When: Right meow!

have you ever killed anyone? if you have, are you proud of that?

[It's a thoughtful kind of day.]

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[mortalcoil]

why are you asking

[though he's probably skulking around the Iskaulit somewhere too, let's be honest]

[versusnurture]

why does anyone ask anything? because i want to know.

[mortalcoil]

[...let him try that again.]

why are you asking HERE

[versusnurture]

you mean on the network?

[mortalcoil]

where everyone can see

[versusnurture]

[Ah.]

so that i can see how people answer. if they go private or don't. if they're scared or ashamed or neither.

[mortalcoil]

[and it takes him a minute to send, because really... he is not the greatest typist in the land.]

but what about you

dont you care that people will see

[versusnurture]

i used to

i don't anymore

people already know i'm not normal, what they can make up in their heads about me is going to be worse than the truth

[mortalcoil]

you dont keep secrets ?

[versusnurture]

some. but when i keep secrets that people can use to hurt me, i just sharpen them into weapons and put them into their hands.

[mortalcoil]

so what do you call this

[versusnurture]

this weapon? this secret? this question?

[mortalcoil]

[on the other side of the screen, he is sighing. and there's a big old pause while he gets up to go get his writing-to-text tablet, because this typing thing is just slowing him down.

give him a few minutes before he returns to continue the conversation.]

Yes. What do you call sharing your secrets if it isn't handing someone a weapon.

[versusnurture]

i call it handing over a weapon, but knowing exactly when and how it's been handed over. under which circumstances. how everyone reacted to the weapon. it tells me who is most likely to stab me in the back with this information that they would have found out eventually anyway.

[mortalcoil]

Does it work? Are you hurt less?