"OK, I will say first — we don't know for sure it works. It's a solid theory, well-researched, but we're a small sample size. Rifters have only existed at all for about a decade, as far as we know. I sympathize with people wanting to roll the dice on not disappearing, and there's some good reasons to think it'll work. But also." She takes a sip of her tea, not quite hesitating.
"Look, I'm saying this to you, and I probably won't say it to much of anyone else. I don't have any evidence for what I'm about to speculate, and I don't want to freak anyone out for no reason. But we also don't know, like ... If we succeed in the war and close every single rift, who knows what could happen? The Fade could like ... hard reset and we could all vanish, shards or not. We honestly just don't know. And I know that sucks, but it's the truth. It's not the same as having cancer back home, where there's decades of data and even then we're still learning more all the time."
There's a sympathetic tone to her voice that's not put on. Rifters are, as a group, a lot more knowledgeable about their existence than they were when Cosima first arrived. But there's still more blanks than data in what they know. It's an uncomfortable place to be and she gets that.
"All that said. I am 100% team bodily autonomy. Anyone with the information to make an informed decision has the right to choose for themself. But I should have pushed back harder on the bookshelf thing in advance. And I don't want anyone else taking unnecessary risks if they're going forward." Even if the bookshelf, technically, wasn't the part that had gone wrong, it was easy to picture how it could have been.
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"Look, I'm saying this to you, and I probably won't say it to much of anyone else. I don't have any evidence for what I'm about to speculate, and I don't want to freak anyone out for no reason. But we also don't know, like ... If we succeed in the war and close every single rift, who knows what could happen? The Fade could like ... hard reset and we could all vanish, shards or not. We honestly just don't know. And I know that sucks, but it's the truth. It's not the same as having cancer back home, where there's decades of data and even then we're still learning more all the time."
There's a sympathetic tone to her voice that's not put on. Rifters are, as a group, a lot more knowledgeable about their existence than they were when Cosima first arrived. But there's still more blanks than data in what they know. It's an uncomfortable place to be and she gets that.
"All that said. I am 100% team bodily autonomy. Anyone with the information to make an informed decision has the right to choose for themself. But I should have pushed back harder on the bookshelf thing in advance. And I don't want anyone else taking unnecessary risks if they're going forward." Even if the bookshelf, technically, wasn't the part that had gone wrong, it was easy to picture how it could have been.