We've only briefly interacted on a handful of occasions, but I expect that you remember me from our last encounter involving Lazurith. I wanted to check in with you. I can imagine that given everything that's happened, you're feeling fairly shaken at the moment. The stakes are very high at the moment, and while Lazurith may be bearing the brunt of the pressure, you're also his partner, and so shoulder a fair bit of it yourself as well.
Let me know if you're willing to talk. You're also well within your rights to shoo me off, and I don't want to intrude.
I am not sure what there is to talk about. I made my plea for his sake, Harbinger provided the option and the condition. And Lenivathan forces Lazurith to choose between himself and you. Just when I thought people cannot be more inhumane than Revanent, he shows up and expects him to force his burden onto you. I know he is interested in you, in some capacity.
A major win for your group, one way or another. If Lazurith decides to keep being a key, both of your bosses are happy and my plea was for nothing. If he decides to let you take over, your leaders are still winning, Lazurith will feel guilty when you die and probably even blame me for it, too.
I do not understand how you people can expect to outplay Harbinger. He knows what you people are up to, and yet he keeps toying with you. If that thing had a face, it must have been smirking in superiority this entire time.
Look. I do not know much about you, except for the stuff Lazurith told me about you when he thought I was not able to add one and one together. Maybe you are a cool person. Maybe you are just another name your bosses throw around as they see fit. I do not care. The situation could not be more scuffed, and I have no idea how to get him out of harm's way. I do not know if there even is a way. He is attracted to the Technomancy like a moth to the lamp. Both Revanent and Lenavithan mesmerize him. He hates being there and in his position, but he feels like they give him a purpose.
I cannot provide him with that. Nor with security. I have blown up a Rogue destroyer, but Harbinger and the Sentinels? A completely different league. I do not know what you people think you can do about them. I would like to trust the word that you guys can keep him safe.
So you're not doing great, then. That's unfortunately about what I expected. There's a lot to unpack here, so bear with me.
First of all, Leviathan didn't force me to do anything. I volunteered when I heard that it was a possibility. Lazurith seems to think that he's saddling me with a burden, but I hope you can trust me when I say that I wouldn't be offering this if I wasn't willing to go through with it. Part of the reason that I volunteered was because I can see how much Laz is struggling with it. He wants the freedom to do what he wants without restrictions, but he also doesn't want to place a burden on anyone else. But he also doesn't want to accept the responsibility of what's necessary given the circumstances. Like you said, it's scuffed, and as long as he keeps clinging to it, we're just going to keep running into the same problems over and over.
I'd rather he gave it up. So would Leviathan. In fact, I thought he was going to give it up, but then I heard that he changed his mind, and I don't know what to believe now. So, I'm going to talk to him, again, and make it clear what's at stake here.
I'm not expecting to outplay Harbinger here. We know too little about them, and they know too much about everything else. They hold all the cards here. All we can hope, in my opinion, is that they'll end up being on the same side as us in the end. And I'm not even sure we can hope for that much. What I do know, however, is that if someone else got to it first, it would be much worse.
I want you to know that I've been advocating for Lazurith as much as I can, at every possible turn. But he's not cut out for this, and something needs to change.
Everything's uncertain right now. I can't make any promises that things will get better soon. All I can say is that I'll keep trying for the best solution I can manage, and in my mind, that's one where you and Lazurith don't have to be tied up in all of this.
Levan. There's no easy way to say this, so I'm going to be blunt.
Lazurith is out of time to stall. The Vagrants have threatened him, and said that they'll kill him if he keeps stalling on the issue. I told him that either he needs to give us the key, or we'll have to transfer it forcibly. He pulled out a pistol and threatened to shoot himself if we forced him. Thankfully, we talked him down.
We've taken him into Valravn Citadel for the time being. He's stable now, more or less. We've given him apple pie. He's safe.
I hate that it's come to this. But we literally have no other choice now. Once we're through with this, he won't be a target anymore. He feels betrayed, and he's right to feel it. But this is the only way we can do this where he stays safe. He's decided that he never wants to speak to me again after this is done, and I don't blame him.
I feel like you deserve to hear it from me. I'm sorry.
I was thinking about how to respond to this for a while. Really.
But I doubt anything I can say will make a difference. I thought about insults. I thought about questioning your morals. I even thought about what made you send me this message. To have a clean conscience? Plainly to let me know that Kristoff, once again, gets fucked bloody by your people? Maybe to bait me to a reaction, to do something stupid that would finally justify Relevant's kill order on me? Or just to make me feel miserable? It cannot be out of honor, as that would be the biggest joke in the existence of the Technomancy.
Are you trying to stand out by pretending to have compassion for Kristoff? Pretending that you, too, might have felt something for him? Those are the questions I asked myself. In the end, it does not matter.
I know I cannot do anything about it. A young boy with a gunboat, nothing more. You people on the other hand are able to resurrect dead people, turn humans into machines. Able to do literally everything to keep humanity behind. As a child, I thought cyborgs and robots are cool. Now I look at the Technomancy and see that even the slavers on Pittsburgh had more humanity than your people have. They did not put impants into your bodies. They did not make us depending on them. Not all of them were bad people, either. Just forced to play their role in the underworld. Do not get me wrong, they still are the definitive bottom of the barrel of humanity, but at least they were still in the barrel.
When it comes to your people, I have yet to see anything other than misery coming from you. You make Kristoff feel miserable. You make me feel miserable. And you are working on making everyone in Sirius feel miserable, by opening that vault. You are not smarter than Harbinger, not even remotely. Harbinger knows exactly that everyone has their own goals for the vault, and yet plays everyone like his personal puppets. Just like your leaders.
So, what does that make you? Thousands of implants, allegedly competing with the best of the best from Ageira and Kishiro. And yet not a single bit more intelligent than anyone else. I might be just a kid, but even I see that your people have given up on humanity and gained absolutely nothing in return. Your people are less than humans, and cannot wait to strip the humanity off of Kristoff. Each moment he spends with your people, he grows more and more depressed, loses more of his body, suffers from the side effects of your enlightened robot technology, suffers from manipulation, suffers from getting treated like a tool.
If you had any feelings for him, you would help him out of this hell your people force upon everyone.
But I guess there is nothing. Nothing but misery. That is what your people are best at. Making everyone feel miserable, dragging everyone down.
Do not bother to contact me again. Keep your misery to yourself.