[Text, Friday afternoon]

[professorwolf]

[Lyall's been meaning to get on the network again for a while, and now that he's finally got a few things to say, it takes him a minute to actually get started. He does finally, though, after a couple false tries.]

Lyall here. I've been in the gallery, and I think a lot of the rest of us have, too. I've even been by that forum, though I didn't post anything. I find it a little disconcerting that whoever was replying kept referring to people as "humans", as if he or she was not one. Given what we've seen thus far, I do not think that is impossible.

Also, I know at least one other person has heard howling sometime at night. I heard it, too, Wednesday night. It wasn't those mutant dogs, the smell was entirely different, and no one else around me seemed to have heard it or even noticed something was wrong.

[He isn't sure whether or not to mention the dream, but he does say:]

I keep thinking it's something connected to all this. That howl, and the feeling of being watched a few others have mentioned, and that wolf statue, with all these visions and changes we're all going through.

Has anyone else heard it or felt anything strange?

[Private text to students, pre-students, and former students:]

I know a certain one of my students has been joking about a club. I was thinking of making it official, if you really wanted to have an after-school club of some sort for those of us on this network. All age ranges, so long as you're still in school of some sort?

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[Text, all private now]

[shiromadoushi]

I don't do after school stuff so any day's fine.

[[and a pause. Because thinking about this makes him angry]]

Those bastards who killed Paul think that they're doing what's best. Why wouldn't those police dogs think the same?

[professorwolf]

No one believes themselves to be evil. Or very few people do. I'm sure they DID think they were doing the right thing, whether to save themselves or their families or even everyone else. They are just deluded or fooled or don't have all the information they need.

[Lyall in this new life is, on the whole, positive about humanity in general.]

[shiromadoushi]

Of course they do. With no thought to anyone else but themselves. That's always how it works, isn't it?

[professorwolf]

Sometimes. Sometimes people think they ARE thinking about everyone else, and think that what they're doing is best for the most people. Maybe they killed Paul because they thought that would save more people in the long run.

Note that I do not actually agree. No one should have to die for the so-called greater good. But I can see how someone might think that way.

[shiromadoushi]

[[a long pause. Pardon him, this issue hits a little too close to home for a 3rd of his soul]]

They're only thinking of a very specific "everyone else" no one thinks about the sacrificed.

[professorwolf]

[Lyall knows how it is because there's a part of him that's as eminently practical as someone who weighs a few lives against a lot of lives-- and so extremely loyal as to strongly favor the lives of those close to him over anyone else. So he can see it.

And to be honest, that horrifies him, that he can think that way. He doesn't know if that's a change, part of these visions, or if he's always been that way, he's just never had to think about it before.]

Agreed. And that's why we have to, since they aren't.