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*looks at you for a moment*
I guess since you are born with it and are able to innately understand and control it, it would seem like a normal biological function. Unless you acquired this ability later on or unnaturally.

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...Meet you at the bottom?

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*smiles*
Thank you.

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*checks over the ledge with while switching different visions to see what is at the bottom*

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Why the bottom?

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*The floor of the silo is largely empty, being a flat metallic surface, split in two in the familiar pattern of black and white down the middle*

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It's not as easy as you make it sound. You saw my sister.

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Then I don't understand even more than I thought.

*Smiles over a cup of hot cocoa at a cafe, watching the bundled passerbies rush between destinations*
There's always a new slice of chaos to come across.

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*The man sitting in front of them chuckles, putting a hand over his mouth. He holds up his coffee in a toasting gesture.*

- "Indeed, indeed. I suspect it's why a good portion of humanity wakes up in the morning."

*He looks out at the passers-by as well.*

- "To see the ant farm, as it were."

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*A working age women sitting next to me in comfortable winter clothes opens her mouth to say something, but I lift a finger and she closes it*
Can you help but love them? They're an entertaining bunch.

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*I lean in conspiratorially.*

"They are invigorating, in the most primal of ways. I don't know what I'd do without them."

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*Smiles*
Who are we but to rise above our primality and achieve new heights? For what greater scale could those who live ascend above those who do not?

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*I consider this for a moment. For a moment, something flickers behind my eyes.*

"I sense you and I have different definitions of primality."

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To see if anyone's down there!

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You can go. I don’t know what level the sound came from, though.

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Perhaps we do.
*Folds my hands*
Tell me, how do you see it?

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Humans are... funny things. From their earliest days, I've watched as they fought, aligned, broke apart, fractured into polities, and in the midst of all of that, retained the fundamental "humanness" that attracted me to them at the start. They still loved, still hated, still took their cruel world and wrought beauty from it, even as their wars got worse and their dissensions more divisive--that leads me to believe that such things are intrinsic to their nature.

*I cast a sidelong glance at the workingwoman.*

I struggle to find a higher purpose than what they already do.

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*Finally opens my mouth to speak*
If that's all humans are good for, then we sure are a sorry race, aren't we?

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*I shrug.*

I wouldn't say that.

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What redeems us to you, then?