me: i am fundamentally opposed to the monarchy and the church as ruling powers. history is a record of their atrocities
my ghost: that's fair
me: but i love it when queen mara sov tells me that i shine as a beacon of ascendant power and that i consecrate the ascendant plane on a paracausal level, its borders fraying and yielding at my touch, the corruption within withering as i approach, and that for someone of my ability one step through that darkness can equal anywhere from a thousand to ten million steps in the material world
my ghost: who doesn't
me: so I was her subject before you found me, right?
my ghost: presumably. you could have been born elsewhere, a child of a child of a subject, but that's not—starboard servitor still up
me: but it's still possible I was just, like... visiting. where you found my bones. right?
my ghost: well yes, but—forward middle—but I really don't th
me: I'm just saying! I'm just saying it's possible that somewhere along that timeline, we kissed, right? I'm not saying it happened, just, it's possible, right? so it's like, not that weird for me to think there might be, I dunno, something there when she talks to me, right?
my ghost: TEN SECONDS LEFT UNTIL REPLICATION
me: fine, fine, we'll talk about this later
