[ the implicit premise to the exchange: that their pursuits here are subordinate to their acknowledgement of qlipoth's hierarchy -- and so, that aventurine does, in fact, anticipate his own return to the ipc.
it should have been his answer regardless -- but what fool would put their faith in the self-preservatory instincts of a gambler? at the very least, it's a useful demarcation of his current status and assumptions. ]
Even you should know better than to start with a presumption.
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it should have been his answer regardless -- but what fool would put their faith in the self-preservatory instincts of a gambler? at the very least, it's a useful demarcation of his current status and assumptions. ]
Even you should know better than to start with a presumption.
[ but then - ]
Name the stakes.
[ this is, after all, aventurine. ]