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- “Apt. But not for the reason you think. Ants are weak, and can be crushed without effort, and that does describe our relationship. I can kill you with zero difficulty, and that is good for you to remember, but can you name another property of ants?”
- The girl guessed that this wasn’t a quiz on arthropod anatomy. “They… cooperate well?”
- “They are *extremely numerous*. And what’s more, they are *indistinguishable*. In that ridiculous and self-indulgent speech to you last round, your sponsor explained the multiverse, did he not?”
- “I already knew about that. There’s several worlds, all of which progressed a little differ…”
- “There are *billions* of worlds. More than that, actually, but once you start to say words like ‘septillions’ you lose a bit of gravitas. In any case, in these billions upon billions of worlds, how many of you do you think there are? As it turns out, still billions. With a fleeting glance, I can find many just like you, at the same point in their various oh-so-heartwarming redemption arcs, so similar that even your new friends could not tell the difference. Doing that kind of thing is, in fact, my greatest area of expertise. So you do not, and cannot, intimidate me just because you refuse to yield like you should. And you cannot defend your actions with the value of your life because, like anything so common, it has none.”
- ***
- Round 11, Season 6, SanityMeter
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