Gideon nods along. He's right. There should be a choice besides losing all your shit and ending up naked. Even if it's a "continue on to your afterlife" option, it's something. That might get a lot of people because people hate dying. Or if there's an issue bigger than them (the Ninth House dying off, Gideon thinks) or someone else they want to save or something. There's a lot of rewards to dangle, and someone who can do all this surely has access to them.
It surprises her that while she agrees she doesn't react by digging in her heels and refusing anything and everything. The vision could be dangling a thing in front of her. She wishes all powerful beings would get over their 'we will tell you nothing; figure it out' schticks like that ever really works for most people. It helps that the Ancient answered her question. It helps that she's been doing good, props or no. They feel pain and worry, joy and relief. Gideon can't help but treat them like people. She won't do what the Reverend Father and Reverend Mother did to her.
"We're obviously not getting the full 'explain the situation,'" Gideon says, "I wonder about the choice of it. If there's a way to leave if you figure it out. Like maybe we seem as simple to the Ancient as the people who live on these islands seem to us. Maybe there is some exit we stumble around not seeing because we're in the maze not above the maze or whatever. If you want to leave—to go home or to go somewhere else—then lets look for it. For you." And for Harrow if that's all it takes.
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It surprises her that while she agrees she doesn't react by digging in her heels and refusing anything and everything. The vision could be dangling a thing in front of her. She wishes all powerful beings would get over their 'we will tell you nothing; figure it out' schticks like that ever really works for most people. It helps that the Ancient answered her question. It helps that she's been doing good, props or no. They feel pain and worry, joy and relief. Gideon can't help but treat them like people. She won't do what the Reverend Father and Reverend Mother did to her.
"We're obviously not getting the full 'explain the situation,'" Gideon says, "I wonder about the choice of it. If there's a way to leave if you figure it out. Like maybe we seem as simple to the Ancient as the people who live on these islands seem to us. Maybe there is some exit we stumble around not seeing because we're in the maze not above the maze or whatever. If you want to leave—to go home or to go somewhere else—then lets look for it. For you." And for Harrow if that's all it takes.