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[bootsweremadeforcasting]

[Had anyone given it thought, they might have noticed Jade has been missing for a few days after the dream issues. No matter, he can be seen in plain view jogging towards the center of the town, noticeably missing the blue uniform he's always wearing. Instead, it's just black pants and a dark blue shirt.

Why he's jogging can be answered if one just looks and listens. There's a noticeable noise when his left foot comes down and any onlooker can see said leg in encased in a metal boot that stretches up to his midthigh. An opening in the front reveals a thick bandage wrapped around said limb. The entire boot seems to be robotic, clicking and whirring when Jade eventually stops near the coral.

Taking out his SFC, Jade makes a quick call to one Alister Azimuth.]

Ah, Alister, the boot seems to be working fine. I haven't taken it off to change the bandages thus far, so I'll have to see how easy it is to get in and out of yet.

Comments

[closedcircuit]

You said I was too paranoid for my own good. I don't know what else you meant it to refer to.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Paranoid in general, Ky~

[closedcircuit]

I don't think I am.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Hm, oh yes, you trust everyone, don't you?

[closedcircuit]

Not people who have shown themselves to be a danger.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Once again, I find it interesting that you wait for someone to stab you in the back before you distrust them~

[closedcircuit]

I wouldn't put it that way, but I do think that most people deserve trust.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Oh, certainly, but trust is to be earned, or so I hear~

[closedcircuit]

It depends on what I'm trusting them to do, I suppose.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Of course, though I do have to say that I prefer doing things myself.

[closedcircuit]

I do agree with that. But I can't do everything by myself, necessarily.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Of course not. However, you also can't rely on others for some things~

[closedcircuit]

It depends on who the others are.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

And we're back to the issue of trusting others too quickly.

[closedcircuit]

I'm not sure that suspicion would benefit the situation at all. Do you really think that it would be better if I didn't trust you, for instance?

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

I don't trust you.

[closedcircuit]

I don't think you need to. But personally, I don't think it's a bad thing for me to trust people.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Not necessarily bad, but it can have highly disastrous consequences.

[closedcircuit]

So can not trusting them.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Hardly worse than trusting them immediately, I can assure you of this.

[closedcircuit]

If people haven't done anything wrong then why should I distrust them?

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

How are you to determine how much right and wrong one has done?

[closedcircuit]

Well, that's why I have to start from assuming that they haven't done much wrong. It's a basis, and one that gives people the benefit of the doubt.

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

And then when it backfires?

[closedcircuit]

Then hopefully the situation is containable.

Either way, I believe that putting trust in someone may help them to rise to the challenge. Whereas distrusting someone who has done nothing to deserve that will only alienate them.