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Sorry to hear that. Yeah, I know of a few others who paid similar prices.

[And several who hadn't admitted to it, but given the round of strange afflictions that all popped up after the market, he can certainly guess that might also have been their cause. Shame, but it's maybe no real surprise by now that something masquerading as helpful comes with a cost.

Still, maybe this one was worth it.]

So what exactly did you ask, and what exactly did it say? In case there's some wordplay trickery involved.

( He shrugs off the other man's sympathy. It isn't so terrible punishment, so long as the information is good. Javert has no reason to believe that it isn't, and so when he answers, he speaks calmly, )

The question I asked was this, "Can the World Eaters be killed?" "Yes" was my answer. I dared not ask any more.

( How? would have been his next question, although he doesn't know how helpful it would be. It almost seemed too easy. )

I see. Simple, then. Very literal.

[Which is good, if not extremely helpful. If the machine does indeed reliably tell the truth, then it's something.]

I've spoken with a few others on how you might kill a thing that feeds on life and light specifically. Starvation, or poison, are two ideas I've heard. Starvation sounds difficult since you'd have to contain them and keep them from their food. But poison - any ideas on how you might poison something like that?

I don't see how that would be any less difficult.

( But that's to be expected, isn't it? If it was a simple solution, one of the other groups would have already tried it, and succeeded. That piece of information Javert got may not mean much in the long term, but it gives them a goal. It proves that it can be done. )

It's impossible to say without knowing more about them. What about the spirits? They've been here longer than any of us have. Do you think they may know something?

[Now, that's a very good angle. Hm.]

I remember Daylight mentioning that he asked them about the World Eaters once. I don't remember that they knew anything helpful, though. I do know Robin has said that the spirits can understand the World Eaters' language, because that's what the reset command is.

[But that's really goddamn frustrating, isn't it? Robin hasn't made any progress on cracking that particular code and she's had decades to do it. Then again, it seems like much of the last 20 years she didn't do a number of things he thought were obvious.]

We need that reset command so some of our people can have a look at it. See if they can make sense of it. But I also understand why she probably doesn't want to give that out.

And what good would that do us? I thought you said you wanted to destroy the creatures, not reason with them.

( It sounds like more of a risk than anything. Even if the reset command was only given to a select few, those could be trusted not to misuse it, it would only breed contempt among everyone else in Beacon. Look at how quickly they turned on Robin, demonizing her even though she had done nothing wrong. Javert frowns a bit, not giving up on his one idea. )

Perhaps the spirits do know something, and they are simply not telling us. We do not know for sure.

I would absolutely rather destroy them, but we don't know where to start. At least language is something we have samples of, or could get samples of. We should learn everything about them that we can.

[There are just too many unknowns. Work with what they have, he figures - until they can get something more to go off of. Destroying a thing the size of a mountain, a thing that resisted all previous attempts to attack it, isn't something they can just go after with guns and swords. Maybe they'll find some method of luring it to its doom and language will be key to that lure. Who knows.]

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