Private to the Admiral THEN PUBLIC HEY JERKS HE NEEDS YOUR ATTENTION.

[lacksconviction]

[This is a tentative post, and Loki's voice has the faltering quality of a man who suspects he may be talking to himself:]

Admiral? There are questions I have which I do not believe anyone else here is qualified to answer.

First among which may be the most futile of them:

Are you listening?

[EDITED IN LATER: Public]

[Hey Barge, Loki is just going to make this conversation with the Admiral, fully public.]

I must indeed be becoming tiresome with my questioning today, because I have one more. This one for the wardens, for those of you serving this man willingly:

Why?

Yes, I have asked before, and yes I've heard answers. For your deal, for your inmate, for the sake of doing some good in the universe, but I wonder how you justify it to yourselves. To serve an entity who not only is little known, but actively refuses to surrender his intentions, the masters which he serves, or even the reward which he will reap for his work in controlling all of us.

I have been told by many among you that he is not a God, but what other beings deal in secrecy and souls?

Why are you content with this?

Prey tell me, that I might lay to rest my fears about what more this place is, than just a prison.

Comments

[Private]

[wecanavenge]

If you're looking for selflessness, you'll find none.

[Private]

[lacksconviction]

A fact that becomes increasingly apparent. I sought only reason to temper the greed of the wardens, but that too is in short supply, it seems.

[Private]

[wecanavenge]

Humans will serve themselves and only themselves at any given opportunity. Have you known them to temper themselves?

[Private]

[lacksconviction]

[A long, contemplative pause.]

So it would seem. Those of conscience seem to follow in blind obedience to the Admiral, unquestioningly. I suppose these are the two edges of their natures. The desire for power, and the intrinsic will to submit.

[Private]

[wecanavenge]

[The vaguest, briefest of maybe-chuckles.] Intrinsic will to submit. That would make things easier, wouldn't it? If it exists in them, it's smothered by their arrogance.