I don't deal with blows to the torso well.

Yeah - And yet the supposedly nicer Gods like Sigyn are hardly seen at all. The one time I spoke with Odin I was pretty let down as well. They seem to bicker a lot, too.

I did speak briefly with Freyr too. Kind of dissapointed in him to be frank - the whole hugging event. He asked for our opinions on it and my friend Hanako gave hers and was blatantly ignored. I mean, why bother asking if you're just going to go ahead with whatever, you know?

[Just the slightest hint of anger in his voice and creased brows. He has a talent for euphimism. In this case 'dissapointed' means 'as close to royally pissed as I generally get'.]

Yeah. It's pretty obvious they're set on their own agenda to the point of being oblivious to what's best for us. I don't want to sound completely ungrateful being we're fed, houses, not locked up in cages or something... but still.

Heh. I really, really hope not.

They have, but it isn't all bad. I love the Library, I enjoy my job, I've met a lot of awesome people. Like I said, I can't complain too much. It's just when they mess with our free will that I get annoyed.

Well, for example, my friend who's intensely afraid of being touched. Put your hand on her shoulder, she'll freeze up. She wound up being compelled to hug a LOT of people. I don't even know how many. It wasn't even as if she could hide in the house or in her room. To say that she was upset about it is kinda putting it mildly, but there was no fighting it.

Then there was the singing thing - people had songs stuck in their head and had to sing them. Songs they didn't even know, some of them. I know a few people who wound up singing things that upset them for one reason or another.

So, not BIG things. But it's enough.

Exactly. It's a kind of 'thin end of the wedge' thing. So, today they're making me hug strangers, tomorrow they'll do.. what? Make me jump off a building? Hurt someone? I'd like to give them the benefeit of the doubt and all but it is worrisome.

That's similar to my take on it. I noticed that they bicker a lot amongst themselves, like some kind of family filled with different siblings. One wants it this way, another wants it that way, and they argue about it and we get caught in the middle.

I can almost forgive them for starting with kidnapping if only because how many of us would have come willingly? Despite anything I might think about being here now, if they had asked me then, I would have flat out refused. I had sort of picked my life up and had started putting things together that I wanted and wanted to do, so, yeah. I would have said No. Now that I'm here and understand the situation, I'd stay, given the option. I mean, we're here to save all of creation in thousands of universes - saving trillions of lives. I mean, don't get me wrong - Kidnapping is a terrible way to go about it but I can see the reasoning behind it.

Well, even if you're not so keen on your own world, there are thousands of others we're helping by being here. To be completely honest, I'd stay just to save one. Any one. It wouldn't even have to be my own, though, that's a definite mark in the 'Pros' column for me.

It's just if I can do that without having to sign embarassing songs, hugging strangers, or exploding, I'll be much happier.

Yeah - fast is a definite plus in a situation like that.

I don't even think it's like a Hero thing. I mean, the only people who will ever know what we're doing are the people who are here. The people on most of these worlds have no idea they're in danger, and have no idea who we are, what we're doing, or anything. So, if we win, life goes on for them completely uninterrupted and no-one's any the wiser except the few hundred of us who got picked to help out. I don't need to have seen or even heard of those worlds to know that they need to be saved. I mean, there's billions of lives on each one - I understand that well enough and that's all that matters in the end.

I'm not really sure if it's that noble. It's just what needs to be done. Besides. Not doing it would make us complicit in the deaths of trillions - I'd kinda like to be able to sleep at night, you know? Haha!

Our pasts definitely inform our perspectives. You're right about that, yes. But it's OK - We are on the same side, no matter what our reasoning is.

There is that. I don't really know much about the other places. I know some people travelled to another city recently but I haven't heard much about it.

Oh? Forms for what? That's cool that you got to see the place - when you say Hi Tech, do you mean like more modern? I mean, we have TVs and Fridges and stuff here, sure. But it's not exactly Star Trek levels of technology.