[ honestly no that's fair, jonas has also been surprised they haven't torn each other apart but he's less optimistic than kaveh is about it.
nevertheless. ]
That's the impression I got, too. They keep saying everything's going to be fine and some of them have even said "when" they come back. I'm...hesitant to be that hopeful about it, but there are more of them there now than there are of us here. If they can get along long enough, they probably could.
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We know they can see what we're doing over here. And that we've been told to keep quiet about certain things so we aren't drawing attention. So I think maybe we just have to keep going and let them work in the background. It won't be much longer, but...it's a little frustrating not to know if we're going in the right direction either. But I trust them.
[This is the second tag in a row where I've been positive I wrote a response and apparently never did??? Okay.
But anyway--he nods. It's not optimism, really, so much as... desperation? Or something like it. They've exhausted all alternatives that he could think of, and found no other way out of the mess they're in. They're just as trapped as they were in the beginning. All they have is blind faith, and no choice but to place it in people they can barely contact.]
Yes. It's not much, and I don't disagree with you. If I had any idea of other things we could try, believe me, I wouldn't hesitate to suggest them. But if Nahida believes that things will be alright, I'm going to try my best to believe her. [He's not saying it's not hard, or that Jonas can't feel helpless and frustrated--just that there is a light in the distance.] So put your faith in her too, okay?
We ran out of options for ourselves a long time ago, I think. It was always just about playing the game. And the game was always going to have one outcome for the winner with the most points. But...trust me, I put my faith in Nahida a while ago. [ there's a tiny grin. ] She makes it a little easier to believe that gods don't always abandon their people in times of need. How could I say no to that?
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nevertheless. ]
That's the impression I got, too. They keep saying everything's going to be fine and some of them have even said "when" they come back. I'm...hesitant to be that hopeful about it, but there are more of them there now than there are of us here. If they can get along long enough, they probably could.
[ ... ]
We know they can see what we're doing over here. And that we've been told to keep quiet about certain things so we aren't drawing attention. So I think maybe we just have to keep going and let them work in the background. It won't be much longer, but...it's a little frustrating not to know if we're going in the right direction either. But I trust them.
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But anyway--he nods. It's not optimism, really, so much as... desperation? Or something like it. They've exhausted all alternatives that he could think of, and found no other way out of the mess they're in. They're just as trapped as they were in the beginning. All they have is blind faith, and no choice but to place it in people they can barely contact.]
Yes. It's not much, and I don't disagree with you. If I had any idea of other things we could try, believe me, I wouldn't hesitate to suggest them. But if Nahida believes that things will be alright, I'm going to try my best to believe her. [He's not saying it's not hard, or that Jonas can't feel helpless and frustrated--just that there is a light in the distance.] So put your faith in her too, okay?
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We ran out of options for ourselves a long time ago, I think. It was always just about playing the game. And the game was always going to have one outcome for the winner with the most points. But...trust me, I put my faith in Nahida a while ago. [ there's a tiny grin. ] She makes it a little easier to believe that gods don't always abandon their people in times of need. How could I say no to that?