Personal Dilemmas

[conjuredskies]

Hey, did you know there’s a way to broadcast messages to the Nexus at large? Anyone might be forgiven for forgetting that, since it doesn’t happen too often these days. And yet, on PINpoints and phones and convenient computer screens alike, people might find an unexpected question incoming:

Given a choice between leaving a friend badly in the lurch, or forcing someone you love to revisit a very painful place, which do you pick?

It’s entirely anonymous and quite untraceable, though it seems certain that the culprit will be able to answer any reply sent. He’s actually hanging out in the bright, luxuriously upholstered environs of a particularly upscale café that offers free computer access, waiting for his IT consultant to come back with the drinks. It doesn’t feel very clandestine to him, but maybe Felix just isn’t used to the ways of the Space Age yet. That’s why he has a consultant.

Comments

[conjuredskies]

How ruthlessly pragmatic. No matter the consequences for your friend? What if there’s a chance they could seek revenge, later?

Her answer is getting taken on board, anyway, but what if there are complicating factors? Or does she consider those irrelevant?

[rogueinladysclothing]

Anyone can seek revenge for any number of slights, big or small. If you spend your time worrying, you'll miss your opportunity to act.

The one you love could fall too. But if you love them you'll try. So make a decision and act on it.

Come now, Felix, you know Amelia never looks back at her decisions once they're made. One can only ever move forward and the most pragmatic of Nexus rogues won't ever let herself regret a decision.

[conjuredskies]

I mean this would really be a very big slight. Big on the order of ‘nothing left but vengeance’. But maybe that just means I’ll have to be thorough in my betrayal.

[rogueinladysclothing]

There are consequences no matter the action. Choose who you care about most, and make your choice.

If your love is great enough to call it out over your friend, the choice seems obvious.

Whatever you do, don't look back.

That is her choice and she will always make it. If someone asks for her advice, the answer will always be the same. Family, love, over all else.