[TLF 05] RIK / MOS

[BLACK ARCHIVE ENTRY: "FATHER" / MOSS]
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RIK: "This will only cause more unnecessary deaths."
MOS: "The Foundation has caused unnecessary deaths. Every day."
RIK: "The peace is kept. The methods are grim. The days continue. What else have you to bicker about?"
MOS: "It was never supposed to be like this..."
RIK: "But it is. Woe."
MOS: "Woe, indeed..."
[...]
RIK: "I sense you have more questions. Gardener."
MOS: "Always... I am so old now... I feel my mind slowly dulling- But you... Your mind is sharp, after all this time... How?"
RIK: "I have done what I deemed necessary. Even if what was necessary was amoral."
MOS: "Always the pragmatic one..."
[...]
MOS: "I have missed you, you know. I have missed *Us.*"
RIK: [Pause / Heavy Sigh] "I know."
MOS: "Will it ever end?"
RIK: [Pause] "No."
MOS: "Please... one day..."
RIK: "Gardener. Please, know that I cannot step from this position."
MOS: "I have waited... So... long... for you to come back to Mokosen... To come home. You know this? Surely?"
RIK: "I cannot step from this position. Not while the First Havunn yet Lives."
[...]
MOS: "You said he would die."
RIK: "I did."
MOS: "He has not..."
RIK: "No..."
MOS: "..." [Muffled Sobbing]
RIK: "I-"
MOS: "That thing... [Sobbing] Has caused me so much grief..."
RIK: "..."
MOS: "Millions of years... And the Anathema still breathes... Will it end? -Will this unceasing watch ever end?"
RIK: "..."
[...]
MOS: "ANSWER ME, RI'IIKO! WILL MALIFUX EVER DIE!? THE ANATHEMA HAS USURPED ME FROM YOUR LIFE! WILL THIS- THIS- [Intense Sobbing]"
RIK: "...I do not know."
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