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[fogofdread]

[The less said about how long it took him to figure out how to use this damn thing the better. He was walking and preoccupied and is not here to be judged.

He is instead here to judge someone else....even if the small five year old in his arms is probably judging him anyway.]

Would this kid's shixiong please come pick him up? I found him wandering around alone. [You know, during a kidnapping crisis. At night.] Says he can fight but I'm not lettin' a five year old wander around alone. You have an hour from me sending this to get a hold of me or I'll take him back to my place and we'll try again in the morning.

[Alibaba's going to complain, isn't he?]

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[advisors]

( Wait. What?

What? )

Alibaba is here?

[fogofdread]

Yeah. Showed up the same time I did.

[advisors]

Is he safe, then? With everything going on...

[fogofdread]

He's fine. Not to happy about being dead but fine.

[advisors]

Dead? Alibaba isn't dead. At least not-

Oh.

Ah. I think I know when he is from.

And you? What is the last thing you remember before coming here?

[fogofdread]

Dying.

[Very much in the tone of "what the hell do you think"]

[advisors]

Apologies. People have come here from all sorts of timelines, and...

I am from years ahead in Alibaba's future, should my guess be correct.

[fogofdread]

Technically my future too, not that I get to see it.

[advisors]

That was due to your own actions and choices.

[fogofdread]

Somewhat, but I'm not talkin' about that.

[Not with you.]

[advisors]

Then, considering you are from the point of your own death, I can trust you not to betray and try to kill Alibaba again?

[fogofdread]

[He wasn't going to swear with the kid nearby but:]

Fuck off.

[advisors]

I need to make sure he is safe, so no, I will not.

[fogofdread]

He's safer with me than he'd be with you. So fuck off.

[advisors]

Considering your track record, I highly doubt that.

And, perhaps, do not swear in front of a child.

[fogofdread]

Maybe if I wasn't talking to a guy who nearly killed me for saying something he didn't like.

[advisors]

While I do regret my reaction, what you said still was ignorant and cruel of you. You never learnt of what Sin went through, and your words had a weight you did not comprehend, and never bothered to.

With what you nearly did to Alibaba and the entirety of Balbadd, perhaps I should have killed you.

[fogofdread]

Did that myself.

[advisors]

You did, but not before killing countless innocents along the way.

[fogofdread]

Pretty sure the guards did that but whatever. Already dead, so why keep trying?

[Stop making him feel worse he's trying to ignore all of this.]

[advisors]

Your actions led to the death of others. Your choices led the people into a riot. I do not doubt the sincerity of your views, or the need your people direly had to try to force some change in Balbadd, but what you did was unconscionable. Do you not harbor a single regret?

[fogofdread]

If I did, why the hell would I tell you?

[advisors]

Because I am one of the only people here who witnessed what your actions caused first hand. If this is what your afterlife is fated to be, then why not use it to undo the harm you caused? To live without the same wrongs?

But, nevermind. What is important right now is the child in your care. I trust you have contacted the authorities?

[fogofdread]

Don't know how.

[advisors]

You can do so via the same device you are using currently.

I can assist you, should you allow it.