She'll have to grill the lot of them about the extent of their abilities sometime. Poke at the foundations, too. Cal had said people with sensitivities could learn, and Toko was still the teensiest bit curious: could a lowly louse like her have untapped potential? It would be wonderful, even if it only ever worked in this delusional locomotive dream, to have some ability that didn't rely on Jill.
Since he doesn't have specifics Toko is happy to drop the subject of bad actors. She has plenty suspicions on her own, and isn't keen to add to the list. Not that she wants to be ignorant, just that...well. She's near the end of her tether already. She hates how quickly this place will throw her for a loop.
They move onto his theories, which she leans a touch forward for, looking up from the curtain of her bangs.]
I met another guy who's thinking the s-same thing. Sort of. But... [Toko worries her lip, casting around for the words.] Isn't that t-taking all these objectives at face value?
There's usually a hidden element. [Back home, it was a guarantee. Every time.] Like — we moved the d-dogs across the river, but what if there was another animal society on the other side? Like mice. Wouldn't moving the dogs mean certain death for them? Or the seeds!
[She gives a fuming scowl.]
Those th-things took forever to gather up. But I bet if that car had a simpler challenge, we could have m-made it to this one before everything went to pot. We might have stopped all this grave robbing and sickness and crap before it began!
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[The Lord is testing her.
She'll have to grill the lot of them about the extent of their abilities sometime. Poke at the foundations, too. Cal had said people with sensitivities could learn, and Toko was still the teensiest bit curious: could a lowly louse like her have untapped potential? It would be wonderful, even if it only ever worked in this delusional locomotive dream, to have some ability that didn't rely on Jill.
Since he doesn't have specifics Toko is happy to drop the subject of bad actors. She has plenty suspicions on her own, and isn't keen to add to the list. Not that she wants to be ignorant, just that...well. She's near the end of her tether already. She hates how quickly this place will throw her for a loop.
They move onto his theories, which she leans a touch forward for, looking up from the curtain of her bangs.]
I met another guy who's thinking the s-same thing. Sort of. But... [Toko worries her lip, casting around for the words.] Isn't that t-taking all these objectives at face value?
There's usually a hidden element. [Back home, it was a guarantee. Every time.] Like — we moved the d-dogs across the river, but what if there was another animal society on the other side? Like mice. Wouldn't moving the dogs mean certain death for them? Or the seeds!
[She gives a fuming scowl.]
Those th-things took forever to gather up. But I bet if that car had a simpler challenge, we could have m-made it to this one before everything went to pot. We might have stopped all this grave robbing and sickness and crap before it began!