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17: This is even better than reality TV.

[There's the sound of laughter. It's not exactly happy laughter, or the type of laughter that you have when somebody tells you a really funny story. In fact, it seems to have reached the point where it is exactly directed at everyone else.]

[The screen finally turns on, showing a particular demon grinning at the camera in the tidy location of a bar. Anthony J. Crowley is laughing at your misfortune, Vatheonites.]

Wow. Wow, this curse is priceless, isn't it? Just seeing all you people squirm when the truth is out...really, you make it easy to tell which confessions are the truth and which are not based on your reactions.

Ooh, and we've got some love confessions in there too! I have to say, watching all of these love triangles and squares and other polygonal figures is probably the best entertainment that I've had in the last several years.

[He snickers slightly, before taking a sip of wine.] And count my lucky stars, I honestly think the curse has passed over me. Haven't had the need to confess anything the last couple of days. Finally this place does something right.

[A pause as his smile widens.] So, don't be shy. Let all your secrets out to me. I'll have you know that I'm actually a pretty honest guy.

[...Wait a second. For a brief second, his smile falters. That wasn't exactly what he was meaning to say. But the smile is back as if nothing happened. Crowley is a pretty hard guy to read, after all.]

So, how about it?

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Hey, I told you what I was going to do before I did it. I'd say that's pretty honest.

And, really? Ooh, how sad. Tell me more.

There's nothing much to tell.

My priorities are in place and I've had more important things to do than developing interpersonal relationships.

[Even if he's lonely, sometimes.]

Still, what if you fall in love with somebody? Does that put all your priorities to a halt or what?

Do you have anybody you're interested in?

I'd imagine that my priorities would have to take precedence over anything else, or anyone else.

It's probably for the best that I haven't been asked to face it.

And no. Except sexually.

[He didn't just actually say that, did he? Well, he certainly didn't mean it, why would he even say something like that! It's clearly wrong.]

[Much more prissily.] I don't really have time in my future back where I come from to consider marriage, and I think it's even less likely here.

So, let's have a hypothetical situation. I love hypothetical situations. What if you were in the event of you having to make the choice to kill the person you love or defect from your responsibilities? There's no other option. Which one would you choose?

[This is an eyebrow waggle, yes it is.] Ohoho, is that so? My, the basic instincts of mankind. How predictable they can be.

Why not? People can fall in love here as well. There's probably priests loitering around somewhere too. It could happen.

I would kill the person I love. But then, it's hardly difficult for me to say that when I'm not dealing with those emotions. Objectively speaking, my responsibilities are very important.

[Why is being eyebrow waggled at? He's just going to try to ignore that.]

Perhaps, but when we inevitably return to our own world we wouldn't have a way of finding each other again.

[Ky is planning on being in perfect control over his emotions in this respect, even though he's so very not in control in regards to other things.]

So you're the unemotional soldier type who follows orders. How boring, really.

[He deals with your type all the time back home.]

So? Carpe Diem! Seize the day. Don't just sit around and do nothing while you're here.

Wrong.

I'm a highly emotional former commander of an army. I simply think that God's will is more important than my own emotional desires.

I don't know what you mean by not sitting around doing nothing, since that's assuredly not what I've been trying to do.

I'm just not making friends.

A religious soldier? Man, I've never liked you people. You do things that you say God made you do when He didn't make you do anything at all. It's all your own will.

So the commander is a lonely man in a big bright world under the ocean. It doesn't hurt to talk to people. They usually don't bite, so I've heard. I mean, you'll probably argue and say that you talk with tons of people, but talking does not friends make, you know.

God gave us free will, but He still has put forth a path which we can follow.

Making friends is hardly my primary objective, here or anywhere.

Yes, yes, yes, I've heard it all before. No need to quote the entire Bible at me next.

What is your primary objective then?

To get back.

To make the world a safer place. To enact justice.

Well, one, you aren't getting back because nobody can get back unless you're least suspecting it. Two, the world is always going to be a dangerous place no matter what you do. Because people are people. And three, go ahead an enact justice. See how it comes to bite you back in the end.

[A smile, as if he just said some cheerful things.] Understand?

I understand that you seem to be rather a bitter man, without much hope for the future. That seems a depressing way to live.

Bitter? Why, I just know the truth.

And I'll have you know that on the inside, I'm a really big optimist even though I use my cynical nature to-

[Okay, SHUTTING MOUTH NOW]

You should try to open up to people sometimes.

Otherwise one might think that you're scared of the truth.

I don't need to open up to anyone. I'm fine by my own. I only open up if I need to.

Me? Scared? Ha! Big words coming from you, Bible Boy.

My faith is a strength, don't try to paint it as a weakness.

If you believe in the wrong thing, which most people do, it is a weakness.

Also, the people who believed in God the most wouldn't be spared in the Apocalypse. They'd suffer just as much as those who don't believe. Believe me, I know.

Faith can be a strength, although I have faith that mine isn't misplaced.

...I don't know about the Apocalypse, but in regards to the idea that everyone suffers, of course we do. This isn't the world to come.

Faith in faith, huh? How deep. Next you're going to tell me the meaning of life.

Yes, but if you expect The Man Upstairs to just swoop down and take you in His arms when you're in danger, too bad. He doesn't care. Believe me, I know. Your faith means nothing to Him in the long run.

If I'd expected that I'd already be sorely disappointed.

But momentary danger isn't the same thing as the long run.

The thing is, I don't think I have the same expectations from God that I believe you seem to.

So, what does faith do for you, if you don't expect anything from it?

Of course, you moron. Because I know more than you do when it comes to that sort of thing. You're like the blind man trying to figure out it's an elephant you're touching, and I'm the elephant expert who is vainly trying to tell you what it is as you do your thing.

It gives me strength and reminds me of my purpose. It gives me a higher order to serve, and the devotion to create justice in the world.

I'm not sure that I trust your analogy, although perhaps it's difficult for you to see, given the elephant blocking your way.

I could do that and more by just telling myself. "man, go out and do things and stuff". You don't need faith for that. Honestly, faith just trips you up and gets you in all sorts of trouble in the future, believe me.

Only because I put the elephant there not to see the ugly truth. You think you know everything, but you really don't. In fact, you don't know anything at all. You're following a pipe dream, a shape in the clouds. It means nothing.

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