Coffee. There was coffee. The entire reason she'd left the comforting cocoon of her blankets in the first place. Emma grabbed the second mug and filled it, ignoring the now-broken one she'd flung at Jack. "Don't make promises you may not be able to keep, Mr. Priest," she said coolly.
"Do you have any idea how delicate, how complex the human mind is? Everything is interconnected; to try and remove all the memories of, say, Sebastien from people's minds without damaging other memories that person touches, to make it smooth with no gaps or holes or sense of loss, takes power. Takes detail and finesse, and whatever it is has managed to do this with billions of people and places simultaneously."
"I can do it to one person at a time, maybe even a half-dozen. But removing entire continents and history from the collective subconscious memory of a planet would take a god." Perhaps the collective power of those telepaths held captive that Jono had mentioned could manage it, but Emma refused to even consider such an option.
"We will do what we can, and more, because we are who we are and we do not let people just take what is ours without a fight. But make me no promises and tell me no lies."
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Date: 2011-11-30 03:04 pm (UTC)"Do you have any idea how delicate, how complex the human mind is? Everything is interconnected; to try and remove all the memories of, say, Sebastien from people's minds without damaging other memories that person touches, to make it smooth with no gaps or holes or sense of loss, takes power. Takes detail and finesse, and whatever it is has managed to do this with billions of people and places simultaneously."
"I can do it to one person at a time, maybe even a half-dozen. But removing entire continents and history from the collective subconscious memory of a planet would take a god." Perhaps the collective power of those telepaths held captive that Jono had mentioned could manage it, but Emma refused to even consider such an option.
"We will do what we can, and more, because we are who we are and we do not let people just take what is ours without a fight. But make me no promises and tell me no lies."