[ yeah this is an objectively healthier way of dealing with things anyway. ]

...Yeah.

[ it sure is a mess... he has no idea what the best outcome would be at this point.

he sighs and sips his water. ]

I guess maybe we'll find out for sure what happens if someone stays alive after they're affected. That's... something, maybe.

It'll give us some sort of answer, but then we will have to deal with whatever the answer is after... Will she just keep attacking?

[ they would probably have to just kill her eventually then, if that's the case. ]

If she's still driven to do that, I...

[ bites his lip. ]

If that's the case and she tries to kill herself again, we should just... let her. Right?

We likely should.

Many of them try to leap to that action when they're caught.

Do you think it's them or the thing affecting them that makes them do that, though?

I mean... would that really be her ending her own story, or something forcing its own ending on her again?

It's hard to say. But speaking to her, she is a person who really wants to live, but then it goes into how much they can resist it.

Mm...

She's told me a lot about her world and what was happening there, so... I know how hard she's been resisting fate already, and how much she wants a life with agency and everything. I want to think if anyone could fight this off, it'd be her.

... we will see. It is very rare that we get what we want here.

[ so he doesn't want to be too hopeful. ]

But the weekend is not over yet, at least.