03 / video

[onlysurvivor]

This is supposed to allow us to contact others from home now? Just for today?

[he clears his throat]

All right. If you're listening, I'm sorry I couldn't tell you everything and that I had to die to make it work. I know you've heard this from OreSeur while he looked like me. I know it's not quite the same but it was the best I could do.

You'll make the world green again. I just wish I could be alive to see it.

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[indispensible]

You had hoped.

[It's almost funny.]

[onlysurvivor]

[Well, Kelsier does laugh a little.]

The skaa needed the hope more than I did.

[indispensible]

[Her lips twitch.]

Do you know what they've done with your memory?

[onlysurvivor]

Not specifically. I have an idea what might have done. They've turned me into what they needed me to be.

[indispensible]

They have.

It's weird.

[onlysurvivor]

It's probably best I'm there to see it. I could have ended up corrupted by it like Lord Ruler.

[indispensible]

I'm . . . not sure.

They did it to me, too. A little.

[onlysurvivor]

[sigh] I am sorry about that.

[indispensible]

Did you think it would happen?

[onlysurvivor]

I knew it was possible. Especially once you killed Lord Ruler.

[indispensible]

Hm.

I don't like it. But it's better than it was.

[onlysurvivor]

I know, it doesn't suit you.

[indispensible]

It doesn't really suit anyone.

[onlysurvivor]

I suppose so. [sigh. he did really like some of that attention though.]

[indispensible]

[A knowing smile.]

You still have hope even though you're dead.

[onlysurvivor]

It's a character flaw.

[indispensible]

It's very strange.

[onlysurvivor]

Well I am very strange.

[indispensible]

I know that.

[She frowns.]

When you're done here, will you come back?

[onlysurvivor]

[His smile fades somewhat]

Vin, I don't think I can answer that.

[indispensible]

Because you don't know, or because you don't want to, or because you don't think I'll like the answer?

[onlysurvivor]

Oh, I want to. I looked for another way for my plan to succeed.

If I were to come back, I would shatter what the skaa needed me to be. You know me, can I be what they think I am?

[indispensible]

You're not a god.

[Which is more or less a no.]

[onlysurvivor]

If I came back I couldn't let anyone know it was me. Even you.

[indispensible]

Then you know the answer. It's no.