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[More or less, yeah.]

FROM: optimus.prime@cdc.org

I am glad for your and the other's sake that they did that much at least.

FROM: optimus.prime@cdc.org

You should not have had to die in the first place.

[goodjob]

FROM: gallagher.fiona@cdc.org

well yeah but thats life its unfair sometimes. most of the time. u will be ok dont sweat it

[thanksoptimus]

[Auuughhhhh- okay, he knows there is no point in being this angry (he doesn't even know why he's this angry) but he just isn't the type to take things sitting down, no matter how persistently awful it may be.

He squints at her message for a long time before responding.]

FROM: optimus.prime@cdc.org

If unchallenged, circumstances will favour the brutal and the ruthless.

FROM: optimus.prime@cdc.org

I have spent most of my existence fighting this eventuality and it is testing the limits of my patience.

[goodjob]

FROM: gallagher.fiona@cdc.org

ur like immortal u gotta have more patience than that. itll b ok

[thanksoptimus]

FROM: optimus.prime@cdc.org

Perhaps so.

FROM: optimus.prime@cdc.org

But in living so long it is easy to become set in one's ways. I have had no other refuge for many years.

FROM: optimus.prime@cdc.org

Were I to allow myself to give up, there would be little between my people and destruction.

FROM: optimus.prime@cdc.org

But here...I feel that change is being forced upon me. And I am inflexible.

[goodjob]

FROM: gallagher.fiona@cdc.org

so b flexible. its not hard just do what ppl tell u 2

[thanksoptimus]

FROM: optimus.prime@cdc.org

I have obeyed them since I arrived - and largely unquestioned.

FROM: optimus.prime@cdc.org

But they only ever demand more.

[goodjob]

FROM: gallagher.fiona@cdc.org

thats life

FROM: gallagher.fiona@cdc.org

im not trying 2 b a bitch or nething thats just how it is u know?

FROM: gallagher.fiona@cdc.org

if u give some1 something they want more and if u dont give it 2 them they get rid of u

[thanksoptimus]

[Oh...]

FROM: optimus.prime@cdc.org

Fiona.

FROM: optimus.prime@cdc.org

Life on your planet has not been kind to you, has it.

[goodjob]

[The miraculous wonders of coming from a children's cartoon and an edgy cable show.]

FROM: gallagher.fiona@cdc.org

it hasnt been kind 2 u either from what u told me. thats just life like i said

[She doesn't want to dwell on how she's different.]

[thanksoptimus]

[Optimus once called the only human badguys in the show "Decepticons in human skin" and I have never stopped laughing at the hilarity of that.

Optimus isn't exactly going to drill her on it, though.]

FROM: optimus.prime@cdc.org

I suppose it was not, especially.

FROM: optimus.prime@cdc.org

But before the war, when my people were still united, there was a time of such hope.

FROM: optimus.prime@cdc.org

I cannot give up on that ideal.

[goodjob]

[Absurdly, Fiona's reminded of her little sister. Debbie isn't out of middle school yet.]

FROM: gallagher.fiona@cdc.org

im not asking u 2. and u shouldnt give it up neway

FROM: gallagher.fiona@cdc.org

but u gotta be flexible with it. the world doesnt care what u think

FROM: gallagher.fiona@cdc.org

so u gotta make them