Will Stanton wrote:"Hey, hey....we'll get through this, one at a time.
We've got healers and psychics back on campus who can help your sister -- Ronnie, right? -- get her feet back underneath her. You can funnel X-Corp through ASHLIE until you're ready to talk to them; if there's anything she's good at, it's stalling and delaying. And if you had stuck to the plan, we'd have had no idea how to get down into the facility; we can't portal to nowhere.
You rescued your sister, you rescued Basil, you rescued a bunch of experimental subjects -- you get a gold star in my book."
Basil Benson wrote:"I wouldn't beat myself up over it." Basil added. "This place was filled with unwanted. Some on them are harmless and seen as burdens, but others still were actual societal problems.
If we only lose one of those into the wild, we've done a good job."
Victor Freud wrote:"If we did so well, why does it feel so bad?" Victor asked after a deep sigh. He knew that Will was trying to help, and that a lot of what they were saying was right, but it didn't feel that way to him. "We've got, what, a hundred people we have to suddenly find places for. People who've spent God knows how long cooped up, monitored, and bossed around. And whatever we arrange for them they're going to wind up cooped up, monitored, and bossed around again. How are we supposed to fix this when as far as they can tell we put them right back where they started? How are we supposed to get these people to trust us? To actually work with the system instead of resist it?"
Chase Delacroix wrote:Chase left the moral debate to the others and walked over to sit by Basil.
"I don't know what story this Queenie sold you but if you are projecting at all you should know you aren't any of those things. If you were, we wouldn't have worked so hard to find you."
Will Stanton wrote:"That's why XCorp exists, to help feed and shelter these people until they can get back on their feet. We're taking them out of a situation where they were being abused, and helping them get back in control of their own lives. We're not sending anyone to Muir or any of the other detention facilities," he said, placing a hand on the smaller boy's shoulder. "We need to identify these people, keep them safe, and get them back to whatever lives they had before hand, as quickly and safely as possible for everyone involved. We're not like the people who did this to them.
And the way we fix this? With kindness. Kindness and courtesy and decency, and understanding that these people have been through a lot and that they have frustrations they'll want to take out; not at us, but at the world which has done this to them. Is that enough? No, of course it isn't. But it's the first step, and that has to come before all the others.
And we don't let 'only one' escape. These aren't numbers; they're people, and 'only one' is a sister or a daughter or a friend to a lot of other people. We get these people safe, and then we go out and find the ones who still need our help."
Victor Freud wrote:"Wow... you're better at this than you give yourself credit.""
Basil Benson wrote:"Before."
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