INBOX - NHD-C12-KRI-248 - IKARI, SHINJI

[forevalone]

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[2leftfeet]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
Then stay upset. Whatever you want to call it but as long as you're feeling something, that keeps you accountable.

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
Monsters don't think they're accountable for anything.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

...What was the scariest monster you've ever met?

[2leftfeet]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
A man who thinks he can control bigger ones.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Was he able to?

[2leftfeet]

[She doesn't know, not technically. But she doesn't need to know what happens in the future of her galaxy to give him an answer.]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
No.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

...I know a monster like that too. Only he doesn't just think it, he can.

[2leftfeet]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
What's your point?

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

How do you stop a monster like that? How do you stop from being controlled by a monster like that?

[2leftfeet]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
Is this "monster" here?

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

No.

[2leftfeet]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
Then if it were me?

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
I'd worry about the answer to that question when it seemed like it might be a problem.

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
You're going to have plenty of other issues, Ikari. Don't torture yourself over hypotheticals.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

I'm sorry.

[2leftfeet]

[Jesus Christ, this kid.]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
For what?

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Because I worry a lot. I know it's frustrating for others to deal with me.

[2leftfeet]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
Worrying means you're smart enough to recognize different possibilities. That's a good skill to have in the field, you just have to figure out how to focus that energy.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

...Really?

[2leftfeet]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
Why would I say something I didn't mean

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Ah...I didn't mean it like that. It's more that no one's ever really said something like that to me.

_{[Y'know, like being a nervous wreck isn't always a bad thing???]}

[2leftfeet]

[It takes her a long second to think of something to say other than 'Your version of Earth is stupid'.]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
Then I'm glad someone finally did.