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[repetitio]

How many of you had combat-training or -experience in your matrices? Call it curiosity.

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[repetitio]

[ it's true, she's exchanged one war for another, but soldier is such a large part of her conception of self that anything else would have been unthinkable.

the question is met first with a snort that doesn't translate to text, of course. ]

Mankind's survival.

[scission]

That's quite a cause. And quite a war, I imagine.

[repetitio]

Seemed like it.

[ but it wasn't real, was it? ]

[scission]

Knowing the deception of the matrices doesn't erase our experiences in them. As I'm sure you already understand, signing up to the ZDG so quickly.

[repetitio]

Yes, and it doesn't change who we are.

[ she was a soldier inside, and she is one here now. ]

[scission]

[There's a short delay, considering, then:]

Why did you choose the red pill?

[repetitio]

No point living a lie.

[scission]

Some would say there's a leap of faith in believing it will reveal a truth. Hope, maybe.

Did you ever believe your war would end?

[repetitio]

Yes.

[ she'd been determined to end it, at any rate, which is not quite the same as believing they would - but it was either them winning and soon, or the aliens killing all of humanity.

that's also an end to the war. ]

[scission]

And what did you think you'd do, once it had? Assuming, in this scenario, you were on the winning side.

[repetitio]

Never thought that far.

[scission]

And now you've found yourself in an entirely different war.

[Except they're meant to be in a truce, whoops.]

[repetitio]

Yes.

[ she sees no problem with that. ]