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'These people will run out of food because of what you've taught them. They'll go hungry and thirsty. They'll suffer even more.'
[ELA] "Yes. They will. But from this suffering a nascent impulse will be born. The people of the Moon were created with no urge, no struggle. They will grow an urge on their own, and with it, survive... For He Who IS Us has come to save his children. They will go on with the strength he grants them. He will inflict suffering on them through me. They will fall into utter despair, and then.... RISE."
'You want them to start over. Not like Nio does, he merely wants to rebuild anew instead of restore like Yutu. But you, you want the whole society to begin afresh, and descend into violence.'
[ELA] "The urge will save them. Their society is already dead and gone. You cannot revive it, only replace what is broken with the same thing. Even before the alien that destroyed this all came and did what he did, they were doomed. Doomed to... dullness. What kind of life is one that is taken care of forever? Eating and sleeping all day, playing, repeat. No more, nothing less. They might as well had already been dead, such a people lack a spark..."
'And turning them into cavemen right out of the Kreide is any better?'
[ELA] "Yes. When the bodies start piling as they drop like bugs from empty stomachs, they will search for a solution... and nobody will be there to shelter them anymore, take care of them for them... I certainly will not. And when they beg for the solution, I'll tell them. Then they will not seek to build these monuments to decadence back. They will seek to build spear and sword, and sharpen tooth and nail. Food will not be anywhere around, so they will need to make it. And on a moon where there is no endemic life... no animals... only rabbits, they will reach the obvious solution."
[ELA] "The urge, now cultivated, grown inside of them... they will survive by redefining the life of a rabbit. They will kill, and the strongest will stand atop. The weak will be eaten out of existence. It will be a great new way of life. They will form tribes, they will scavenge. They will grow smarter, as they find that creating new ways to kill is in high demand. They will survive, and for the first time, truly be alive."
[ELA] "Deceived puppets of the ostentatious Emperor's hand... become free and gain color anew, breaking out of this bleak grey. I am Ela, I was a god of the Trinity who went to face the Darkness on my own... I was killed by He Who Is Us, and I was pathetically slain. But it was not my end. Now, I am free of golden "grace". I have been shown the way. I know the pleasures of real life, and I learned the hard way. This world was meant for the strong. Not the perfect, or the imperfect..."
