[No. Maybe not. But wouldn't it be worth seeing what happened? She's seen him - the second, baser version of Aoba. How does his presence alter the state of his brain, of the symbiote? Isn't the Prince curious?]
[No, he wasn't. He had hurt enough people. Enough hosts.
But that wasn't really the question, was it? She thought it was worth doing. And she was the one who was meant to know this kind of thing. He was simply-]
You are quite certain it is worth taking the risk?
[There were so few of them. And she would ask this of him? Of course. Why would she not?]
[That second version of Aoba is dangerous - potentially to his brood, the other hatchlings, the Nest even. It is their responsibility to determine how to best control and contain that threat, and no such determination could be made without an initial assessment.]
( Perhaps the symbiote's growth will stabilize him, but it may not. )
[It would be irresponsible to avoid their due diligence simply because the Prince found is distasteful.]
[He couldn't remember the exact term, but that didn't matter, he didn't need to remember it to say it to her.]
Poking beehives.
[It was far from simple. Stopping one of Kylo Ren's tantrums, barring Ilde from causing more damage, those were easy things. Aoba, as he was now, was no threat. He knew that the universe did not care about fairness, but he had never managed to stop.
Still, there was no denying that the other one was dangerous. This was, in some way or another, quite likely necessary.]
You will talk to him.
[He would not do this without explanation. If they ruined Aoba's faith in them and in the Nest in the process of this, it would not be worth it.]
[He's not a threat yet, but can the Prince ignore the potential to be one? Wouldn't it be best to have a contingency plan in place? Or maybe she's just curious. Maybe she just wants to know an answer to a question and it doesn't particularly matter what the answer is or which question it relates to.
She likes to know things. This is an interesting thing to know.]
( If you like. )
[The shape of her mental presence doesn't turn away - not from him, never from him -, but it does broaden. There's a sense of something shifting in the darkness as elsewhere she reaches out for Aoba.]
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( But would you do it for us anyway? )
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But that wasn't really the question, was it? She thought it was worth doing. And she was the one who was meant to know this kind of thing. He was simply-]
You are quite certain it is worth taking the risk?
[There were so few of them. And she would ask this of him? Of course. Why would she not?]
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[That second version of Aoba is dangerous - potentially to his brood, the other hatchlings, the Nest even. It is their responsibility to determine how to best control and contain that threat, and no such determination could be made without an initial assessment.]
( Perhaps the symbiote's growth will stabilize him, but it may not. )
[It would be irresponsible to avoid their due diligence simply because the Prince found is distasteful.]
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Poking beehives.
[It was far from simple. Stopping one of Kylo Ren's tantrums, barring Ilde from causing more damage, those were easy things. Aoba, as he was now, was no threat. He knew that the universe did not care about fairness, but he had never managed to stop.
Still, there was no denying that the other one was dangerous. This was, in some way or another, quite likely necessary.]
You will talk to him.
[He would not do this without explanation. If they ruined Aoba's faith in them and in the Nest in the process of this, it would not be worth it.]
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She likes to know things. This is an interesting thing to know.]
( If you like. )
[The shape of her mental presence doesn't turn away - not from him, never from him -, but it does broaden. There's a sense of something shifting in the darkness as elsewhere she reaches out for Aoba.]