// VANNET // CIVILIAN TERMINAL // ENCRYPTION ENABLED // // TRANSMISSION ORIGIN: EUROPA // // CONVERSATION LOG—TRANSLATION MODULE ACTIVE // // USER: @BOTZA-GUEST // // USER: @EURFOB // :: Thank you for using VANNET :: :: Your conversation may be recorded :: :: Connecting you with your party // EUROPA1@JOVIANFOB :: ---------- @EURFOB: Long day's grace, Misraakskel. @BOTZA-GUEST: Light bless you, Variks. Thank you for taking this time. @EURFOB: You sound troubled. Confide. Variks will listen. @BOTZA-GUEST: The Humans are… they are not as accepting as I had hoped. They cannot see us as anything but the things of their nightmares. @EURFOB: Are we not? @BOTZA-GUEST: I thought things would change. @EURFOB: Kell you may be, but you have much to learn about being a Kell yet, Misraaks. @EURFOB: Change does not come overnight. Not for Eliksni. Not for Humans. Change takes time, effort. Change hurts. Like first-molt. @BOTZA-GUEST: I suppose. @EURFOB: Suppose nothing. Misraakskel is too eager to forget the Wolves. Do you remember what it was like to kneel to the Queen of the Reef? @BOTZA-GUEST: I thought the Humans would be different. @EURFOB: Hope is hope, reality is reality. You cannot splice all things to be as you wish. @EURFOB: No shortcuts here. @EURFOB: No excuses, either. Not for Humans. Not for Eliksni. @BOTZA-GUEST: I miss your counsel. You should visit, when things calm. Stand beneath the Great Machine as you did in the time gone. @EURFOB: No. @EURFOB: No. Variks cannot. That is then. This is now. My river does not flow backwards. @BOTZA-GUEST: But— @EURFOB: Enjoy your victories, Misraakskel. Do not let the pain of now overshadow the promise of tomorrow. @EURFOB: We should all be so lucky.