mad investor chaos Carissa lands on Elie
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"Or, you could not die horribly, and come with me to Absalom, and try to actually fix the world."

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"There's any number of clever wizards in Absalom. I'm not needed there. I am – I'm very likely needed here." 

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"Feels wrong to say I hope that works out about something that won't work out. I do hope you don't get caught, that sounds like it'd make my life considerably more complicated."

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"I wish you knew more about what actually happens, how our Republic goes wrong. If you could tell me something specific that's supposed to happen in a year or two or five, that would make it a lot easier for me to believe that you're really from the future.

....If we do drive out Cheliax, and it all turns out to be an absolute hopeless tangle afterwards – and I survive, that's the real open question – do you think you could still find something for me to do?"

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" - oh, easily. If the Project hadn't collapsed it'd have had need of hundreds of people who're smart and creative enough."

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"Then maybe we will end up working together. Though for obvious reasons, I, uh, sincerely hope not." 

Is he smart and creative enough? On the one hand, most people are idiots. On the other, plenty of them can hang second-circle spells, and he can't. 

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"Well, try not to die, and if you do die, try not to go to Hell."

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"Oh, I'll do my best." Not like it's the only thing he's ever cared about practically since he was old enough to have coherent desires. 

How long will it take her to finish the ring? 

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She has it done by the end of the day. 

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Well. That's that, then. 

"I can show you how to get above ground outside of the city."  

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" - thank you." It's not a Chelish thing to say. But, well, she's not going back. She can't.

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"One of the privileges of not being Asmodean. Sometimes we can afford to be kind to each other." 

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"I keep wanting to get people out. Even ones who wouldn't appreciate it. Is that a symptom too?"

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"Only in very advanced cases. Do you have family you're close to?"

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"Not close, and they're fine. I want my subordinates, from the Project. I - there were people who trusted me."

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They're not fine, they're in Cheliax, but even Élie knows better than to bring that up. 

"I understand that. You know, it's ridiculous, but I keep wanting to rescue my teachers. A couple of them were wonderful, as long as they just kept talking about magic, really bright and competent and curious, and then in every other area of their lives they'd just – completely shut themselves off.  I don't know if there's anything to be done for people like that, but when you realize what's going on, it hurts to watch them deliberately making themselves worse." 

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"My commander at the Worldwound was a priest of Asmodeus. It would be ridiculously insane to involve him in this, but also he'd be really good at it and I miss him."

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"What was he like?"

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"Good at his job of not letting the world be consumed by demons. Smart. - not sexist, not to be whiny about it but most people are at least a little bit sexist. I mean, he did give us all to Keltham as slaves but that made it if anything more notable, that he wasn't sexist. He - wanted me to succeed."

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"I hope he's – I hope we win." 

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" - yeah, I guess that's it, isn't it. If you want Asmodeans to listen to you you have to beat them. At least they'll listen then."

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"We should count ourselves lucky there's the one crack where reality can get through – watch out, we need to duck for this next bit." 

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She ducks. "I liked the Worldwound. It felt like it was - mostly reality. And then the Project was - lots of reality but we were all hiding from it as far as possible." 

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"What was the project, exactly? Beyond learning alchemy from your alien boyfriend." 

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