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[ukan]

I may have asked this before, but if I did, it was before this last...paradigm shift.

What is the worst thing you've ever imagined doing? Not something you did do--but something you dreamed up to soothe yourself.

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[ukan]

And what do you do with that kind of fear? A friend of mine--he murdered twenty people once without thinking about it. He handles the fear of that day by day, like an alcoholic. But as an alcoholic, I don't think there's anything that will ever be enough.

[routemistress]

Keep choosing not to be that person. What the 'eck else can I do with it?

[She shrugs, as if she isn't being deadly serious.]

I can be frightened as I like. I don't 'ave to let it get in me way.

[ukan]

The world would be a safer place if everyone could do that. Fear dictates a lot of things that people know they'll regret.

[routemistress]

[She nods.]

It's the biggest reason we're 'ere, I think. To teach that skill.

[And grins.]

...It 'elps that I'm more frightened of where being afraid takes me than I am of owt else.