Talk:The E'dn (story)/@comment-2607:FEA8:7A5F:EA3D:786A:A65A:9107:9F2A-20180106170613

Lol! This was AWESOME!! I love how Dr. Fang-reer thinks he/she is the interrogator here, when in fact the Angels are the ones in control. You'd think Dr. Enari-tan would hesitate to fill his predecessor's footsteps. When the human subject admitted that Angels had failed at sikaz, it made me wonder: have any of the Proeathans ever attempted to learn Angel psychic abilities, and presumably failed? Or do they function at a level the Proeathans simply can't understand, and so discounted as real? I know Des was angry at the Illythians when they referred to humans in Demeter as "fivers," meaning they lacked a sixth sense. I felt badly for those two Angels who committed suicide, and took as many Proeathans and humans with them as they could. But two years is a long time to be prisoners of war, science experiments. Does the time Des spent as a prisoner of the Adjatevs haunt him? He spent much of that time in cryostasis, although you revealed he was awakened occasionally for questioning or to try to bribe him with Angel Lucy, but they always failed and wiped his memory of those encounters. Yet Des was aware to some extent, as in The Seventeenth, Des remembers crying and screaming at times in his imprisonment, in his total isolation, at being ripped away from the Flock. I get why they kept him mostly asleep, though. He might've tried to kill himself otherwise, or attack a Proeathan and force them to kill him as his only way to escape. The trauma that these Angels and humans went through can't have been any less than what Des went through. No wonder Saturn ripped through that facility and left no Proeathan survivors in her wake. And she had far less mercy than Des. Would Saturn approve of how Des has handled the eternal conflict between the species? Or think him lesser for forgiving the Proeathans and uniting species? This was a powerful story, Xazz, as is your entire Flocking Movement saga. Thank you. :)