[They meet her gaze at the same time, wearing a melancholic expression. It's... surprisingly easy, to talk about this. To her, at least. She understands in a way even stardust couldn't.
Still, they can only shrug.] I still have some abilities granted to fulfil my duties, but not all of them. I haven't been needed for much lately, either. Stardust has been doing well on his own.
[Which is... good, actually? They're glad he's doing well. It does make them feel a little bit more useless, though, when the one person they exist to help doesn't really ask for their help anymore. Lately it's been stardust checking up on them instead. Feels backwards.]
The Universe only made Itself known when I tried to shirk those duties. If stardust wanted help with something I didn't want him to do...
[they can still remember it clearly. like being dunked in ice-cold water, floating in their own body as something vast and unfathomable puppets them around. they shudder.]
I don't really want to test that, anyway. [it would make them so much worse if Siffrin could still override their free will, they don't want to know]
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Date: 2024-09-24 04:26 am (UTC)Still, they can only shrug.] I still have some abilities granted to fulfil my duties, but not all of them. I haven't been needed for much lately, either. Stardust has been doing well on his own.
[Which is... good, actually? They're glad he's doing well. It does make them feel a little bit more useless, though, when the one person they exist to help doesn't really ask for their help anymore. Lately it's been stardust checking up on them instead. Feels backwards.]
The Universe only made Itself known when I tried to shirk those duties. If stardust wanted help with something I didn't want him to do...
[they can still remember it clearly. like being dunked in ice-cold water, floating in their own body as something vast and unfathomable puppets them around. they shudder.]
I don't really want to test that, anyway. [it would make them so much worse if Siffrin could still override their free will, they don't want to know]