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[cactusy]

You could be the best tracker in the world, and there's still no card you could have that would make that a doable plan.

[ichoosefight]

Do you think if you scoff hard enough you can shame me into explaining? I can't even convince you I'm a real person. Why should I bother trying to convince you I know what I'm doing?

[cactusy]

I'm trying to tell you there's a difference between knowing what you're doing and being invincible. You obviously think you're the latter, and that's what's gonna get you in hot water.

[ichoosefight]

[ Just. Just give her a moment. She's trying not to laugh. ]

You have to know how that sounds coming from you. I mean, seriously.

[cactusy]

When have I ever said I'm invincible? The death thing doesn't count.

[ichoosefight]

How does that not count? You literally said you couldn't die just yesterday.

[cactusy]

"I came back from being dead" isn't the same thing as "I can track someone down, by myself, in who-knows-how-many square miles 'cause I'm cute and plucky".

[ichoosefight]

You said, and I quote, "Whatever happens here doesn't matter. We die, we just reset!"

It's on record. You can't deny it.

[cactusy]

It doesn't matter in the real world. To us, while we're in here-- yeah, sure, okay, it was some crappy phrasing. You gonna harp on it forever?

[ichoosefight]

For as long as I can, absolutely.

Don't worry, I know I'm not invincible. I know it better than most.

But for the sake of your budding social skills, I have to tell you, telling someone that what they're doing is stupid or dangerous is probably the worst way to get them to stop. It only ever made me more determined, and people have been trying for four years.

[cactusy]

That's because you're nineteen. Try not running on pure spite once in a while.

[ichoosefight]

[ She sighs, but this time it's mostly coming down from the high of getting to rub Sameen's own words in her face. ]

You keep citing my age like it means so much. Not everyone matures at your designated rate, you know. I got past the spite stage years ago.

[cactusy]

Your prefrontal cortex is literally underdeveloped.

[ichoosefight]

It's that thing again. The dismissing. That because of my age, my experiences don't count. They aren't serious. But you don't even know the experiences that you're brushing off.

Does it scare you to know that there's more to me than you realize? That I've been through things that would probably give you nightmares?

[cactusy]

I don't get nightmares.

And I don't think your experiences don't count.

[ichoosefight]

Which experiences count, then? You've written off just about everything I've said as some hormone driven instinct to fit a movie stereotype.

[cactusy]

Medical fact, but okay.

Just because you have a teenage brain doesn't mean awful things can't happen to you. And before you say anything, it doesn't mean you can't do big, consequential things - good or bad - either. It just means that when you do those things, you're gonna be really annoying about it.

[ichoosefight]

More than normal to you, because you've earned it.

I'm just telling you, that if you try to stop one of the other people on this island from doing something stupid by explaining to them that it's stupid, it's not gonna work. That isn't limited to teenagers. That's basic human nature. You dismiss someone, they dismiss you right back.

[cactusy]

If they're dedicated contrarians, maybe--

Seriously, you think I'd be having this circular-ass conversation if I had anything better to do right now?

[ichoosefight]

Yup.

You could be sleeping. But you're not.

Because you like me. You're just so bad with people that you've got it all twisted around.

[cactusy]

Wow. Even people at home didn't try that line.

[ichoosefight]

I'm close with some really emotionally stunted people.

You learn to cope.

[cactusy]

Not interested.

[ichoosefight]

Not your decision.

[cactusy]

It sure is. I've always worked well alone.