PC CATCH ALL WITH FLAYN

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Dimitri was very upset when you were hurt last time.

[just say killed, flayn...]

And... we don't necessarily know what will happen here. We were lucky before, to be revived. If there is some way out of this, I want to be sure that you can find your way back to Wen Ning, and not end up trapped here as we believed we were going to be on the island.

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...

[He gives her a rather bittersweet smile.]

I...want to find my way back to Wen Ning, too. [He reaches over, patting the top of her head. Three times, exactly.] I appreciate it, Flayn, but you also should watch out for yourself, too.

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I am glad to hear that.

[She breathes out a sigh of relief. Good, so he won't be telling people it's fine if they kill him this time.]

...do not worry! I intend to be much more careful this time around. I shall only eat food that I myself have prepared.

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[Anaido, who has been eating nothing but what other people have been preparing him: :)]

Good! We learn from our past experiences, right? Though I guess there's nothing to fall off from, in this place...

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[Anaido PLEASE.]

Well, there is the ladder. [...] Ah! That was not meant to be a suggestion!

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[He bursts out laughing at that.]

You make it sound like I'm just going to go rushing for it, haha!

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...in my defense, you were hurt before I was. And as they say, history repeats itself.

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Ah, but lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice.

[Does this mean something? Who knows.]

Do you think we can trust the others? The ones who are not from the island.

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I would like to trust them. Many of them seem very kind.

[But... many of the people on the island had seemed very kind, too, and a whole bunch of people still ended up dead.]

One of the people from the mansion is a friend of Ryuji's and Yusuke's. They were quite vehemently against the idea of killing people, so I believe he will be against it, as well.

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Oh? A friend of theirs we never met?

[How...odd.]

What's his name?

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Yes. His name is Akira.

[She's not sure how it is that they were split up, but... he recognized who she was talking about, so.]

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What sort of circumstances did he deal with before this? The castle? The demons?

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Not the demons. It was a... mansion, I believe? When we spoke, he said they would often break into locked rooms and find new things.

[She thinks about it...]

I spoke to someone else who I believe was there as well, and he said that sometimes they would turn into monsters.

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[That sounds familiar.]

I met someone who had to deal with monsters as well. How odd. Monsters, spirits, gods...sentient places...they all seem so similar.

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What do you think could be the cause?

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[That's a big question. He has to think about that for a moment.]

Someone pulling the strings...or, something like, there's a "god" that controlled all these other minor "gods".

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[Flayn frowns, looking troubled. Gods, huh...]

But what sort of god would want to do something like this..? G⁠—... the Goddess would never allow it.

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A god of chaos.

[To play with people like they're toys...]

Someone who could care less, I think.

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How terrible...

[It's a little disturbing to think about, honestly.]

Beings that call themselves gods ought not to treat people this way.

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Gods are gods. They can do what they want. Its not like humanity is exactly all-powerful like they are.

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...they are meant to use the power they have to protect and guide humanity. Otherwise, what would be the point?

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[He stares at her for a moment, an enigmatic smile crossing his face.]

Aren't there bad gods in your religion, Flayn? Most religions I can think of has one, or at least, a very powerful being that stands in opposition to the rest of the panetheon. Loki, Lucifer, Saturn, Set...there's more than you think.

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...no. There is just the Goddess, and she is benevolent and watches over all her children.

There were also Seiros and the Four Saints, but they... were not gods. They were children of the Goddess who sought to protect Fódlan from those who would have seen the land embroiled in war.

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Who are the enemies of the Goddess and the Saints, then?

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...the Saints vanished from Fódlan more than a thousand years ago. They have no enemies now.

But in the past, they fought against Nemesis in the War of Heroes, which led to the founding of the Adrestian Empire.