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How does one become such a glorious creature? Trick question. She is born through mighty prophecy, and if she is not, if she comes up from indigency, orphancy, or otherwise unassuming origins, it becomes apparent about one-half to two-thirds of the way through that in fact she was the long-lost daughter of the King, or all along had a powerful magyckal bloodline, or was a heroine all along, but had only forgotten. She was always a heroine all along. There was never any possibility of the bloodline not manifesting, or the memories not surfacing, or of a faithful servant not stumbling upon her: it was what it was because it will be, and it will be because it was. The heroine is always becoming. The heroine always <span class="mu-i">is.</span>
And you <span class="mu-i">are.</span> Because you wanted it? Or did you want it because you were? Trick question. A heroine does not want: a heroine gets, and you saw the future and grabbed it with two hands and bent it back around to meet you. When and how don't matter, not when it was, not when it will be, not when it's utterly true.
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In the same vein, you will explode Headspace, because you must. Because that's what a heroine does, and you are and must be one. Ellery might have good intentions, however misguided, but he's no hero. He would know if he was. Everybody would. He must know he never was cut out for this. Right?
Ellery on his side of the line on his stupid imaginary lounge chair isn't awed by you. You think he wants you to know that. You think he wants you to know that if he had a face, if he had a look, the look on his face would be a terse half-smile.
Why does it take a heroine to blow up a company? he says. It's dirty work. It's not exactly heroic. Collateral damage and all that.
Not using <span class="mu-i">your</span> plan. It's obviously heroic. It involves saving thousands of people from eternal torment, plus explosions, which are heroic by default. Plus, it's not like he gets to say what is and isn't heroic. You're a heroine, so you do, and what you say is true. It's true because a heroine's heart is pure and honest, so she only ever speaks truth. (Another point against Ellery being any kind of hero, by the way.)
I think your logic is kind of circular, Ellery says.
Yes. Circular. Self-reinforcing, self-sustaining, infinite, spiralling, perfect. Always moving, but always fixed in place. A thing apart. A thing-in-itself. There is no other way. He is clustering himself up, pulling back, because he does not like to see that it's true, when it is, and it must be, and it is. The critical difference between you is: Ellery is Ellery, and you are you.
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