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[lingeringhope]

[Hope's voice is clear and clipped.]

If you would like to leave a message, you may do so here. I can't promise to respond. I have many demands on my time, and this sort of thing is far down the list. Still, if you would like to, you may.

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[lingeringhope]

Since we do not know how they managed to break onto the network, that would be impossible. Normally we are capable of easily monitoring everything on it. Our first goal is to discover how they were able to.

[sonofacesius]

[Well there went that idea. Oh well.]

Understandable. Can I ask one last question? You guys, the gods here, are all embodiments of emotion right? That's why you get power from it, like we eat food.

Where I'm from, gods can be killed when what they stand for no longer exists or their seats of power are destroyed. In my world, Pan faded, when there were no longer enough Wild places in the world. But you guys, are emotion incarnate. So, you can't really die, right? Or fade?

Not that I'm planning on killing you guys.
[Will added hastily, because killing Gods is really, really bad. Unless they were like Kronos or Gaea or something. Unless he had Reasons. Like mass murder.]

I'm just trying to figure out how you differ from what I'm familiar with.

[lingeringhope]

We're not embodiments of emotion. Emotion is what powers us, but we are not representations of it. Without emotion to power us, we are far weaker and can be more easily killed.

[But you're dreaming if you're hoping for clues to how gods are actually killed, Will. Hope has had enough people threaten him to know better.]

[sonofacesius]

[Huh. That was interesting. Will didn't want to press his luck, but he was curious.]

If you're not emobidments of emotion, why are you named after them?

[lingeringhope]

Because you cannot communicate the way we do and would not be able to say our names. These are names that you understand.

[sonofacesius]

Oh

[Will shifted. That was a pretty good reason and explanation.]

Thank you for your time Hope, and for answering my questions.

And for not killing me.

[lingeringhope]

I do not kill.

[sonofacesius]

Well, thanks. I appreciate it. Or not being turned into a bottle of merlot or a swan or something.

[lingeringhope]

You are welcome, I suppose.