.....Such as?

Are you hiding any secrets?

As I said before, I hide no secrets and tell no lies.

Then why did you not finish the comment you were going to make?

Because that is not MY secret and it is not MY right to bring up issues that may have arisen in the past for a person so that I may gain a GUILT point to use on the other party. Not only is that MANIPULATIVE but would make me a HYPOCRITE to always be willing to forgive crimes, and to yet bring it up, only because I feel the other party might be acting like a hypocrite themself.

It is NOT right, at least to my own moral code, to do such things, but I had a lapse in judgment due to anger, and thus removed myself from the situation to calm down, as one SHOULD do.

I do wish to bring up a topic of my own. What have I done to cause both you and Helios to judge me so much? I feel the tension around me and am unsure why, but I have ignored it so far, hoping it would pass. If I must leave that is fine, I can do so if it would make both of you feel better.

Well, uh, you are really nice.

You suspect me because I am nice?

Well yeah, most of the nice people I've run into seem to have other motives. At least if you were a jerk, it'd be easier to tell when you're being..........

I am sorry to hear that, Player.

Obviously, I cannot change the way you think based on what others have done, but I assure you I have no ill will. I do all because I BELIEVE it is right. And I understand if, to others, it may not seem as such. This is why I sacrifice myself for my own morals and not others.

There are also a few other things that make me uneasy about you.

Let's go through all of them, one by one, together.

Well, your background is different from everyone I've met so far.

......

That is true, but as I said. I do not know why. Maybe the devs felt my white face would be lost on a white background.

You kind of have this evil video game character get up.

I genuinely like the way I look! I guess expectations cause worry, but the way I look is just how it like it, Player.

And you always keep one of your arms behind your back. It's a bit-

Weird? I understand. The way I pose myself makes a lot of people uneasy. It is not my intention. I only keep that hand behind my back because it makes me uncomfortable to have it out.

Are you holding something behind your back that you don't want people to see?

Oh, no, no, no! It is not what I am holding that makes me uncomfortable. It's just the controls to a giant planet death laser.

IF THAT'S NOT THE PART THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE THAN WHAT IS? WHY DO YOU HAVE A PLANET DEATH LASER ANYWAY?

Zeus told me to hold on to it.

And now he's dead.

Why don't you just let it go?

Because he never told me to let it go.

Are you doing this out of a sense of sentimentality, or are you programmed to follow Zeus to the letter?

I do this because I WANT to do this, Player.

I understand that there were a lot....a lot of imperfections about Zeus, but I swear to you now, he had the best intentions most of the time. Being the leader for a pantheon is hard; every choice you make, correct or incorrect will come with criticism.

Every mistake will be looked down upon as if you should have been a perfect machine that could make no mistake when, in reality, you are just a person like the rest of them. It messes with the mind of a person.

I worked with him, and wish I could work with him more, but all that matters in this situation are that at least with this choice he made, to give me this device of death, he did not make the wrong choice, and I will not let it go until the time is right.

Zeus gave this to me, knowing that if anyone asked him for the controls, no matter if he was stressed to the point of wanting to let them have it out of worry that he was making the wrong choice, he could do nothing but point to me.

And he knew that even when he failed, that I would be there argue for what is right.

I'm sorry for bringing it up Kratos. Now I see why you have your hand behind your back.

Ah, while it is a sad tale, as I said, it is not why I keep it behind my back. I must say the real reason is.....a lesser one. More personal, but I do not mind telling you why.

It is because a long time ago, my arm was removed while handling.............a criminal......a criminal to the system, but now I'm not sure. I had it replaced, but it is quite clear it's not my original arm, and it embarrasses me. I do not like being asked questions about it. So I keep it behind myself, and when someone asks, I pretend not to hear. It is the only lie I will commit.

It is not the appearance of the arm, though I must admit that is part of it, so much as it is the memory of the event that happened, that causes me to hide away my shame. What I did was wrong.

It was an AI by the name Prometheus, who had let loose the secret of containing us AIs in these forms. Before, we were more free-floating, like viruses. Some of us caused havoc, and Prometheus was not pleased by this.

So he brought the people knowledge of how to contain us. The AIs, all of us, we're not happy with this. I don't think Prometheus knew that his actions would cause so much grief in the end....but at that moment, we all saw him as a person who did this on purpose. So a plan was made. We would punish him. Brutally.

And it would be I and my sibling Bia, who would assist the most with this task........ Ah, welcome back Helios, I am just telling the story of Prometheus right now.

Oh....bad timing then. I will be back once more.

When the whole world is telling you what you're doing is right, it can be impossible.....no....hard to see what you're doing is wrong. More than a hundred voices shouted to my sister and me that Prometheus should be punished, and so we did.

I do not wish to go into what we did, as selfish as it is for me to say so, but we did as we were told......

No. We were told what to do, but we ALSO wanted to do it as well. We are equal to blame.

And during it all, I lost my arm and had it replaced. I showed off that arm as a badge of honor, as people praised me for my work on punishing "Prometheus the horror" for all of eternity!

And then one day, my sister asks me, if Prometheus understood what he had done, and if he would have repented if he knew the repercussions of his actions. I stopped showing off my badge of pride and started hiding my shame.

How can I, a person who fights for justice _for_ criminals, turn around and show PRIDE for the eternal punishment of one. A sentencing of death would have been kinder than what I did.

I have resolved to be kinder to criminals due to this all. In my head, I am an ex-criminal myself, though my crimes were legal, no, PRAISED by all those around me. I forgive myself for the horrific actions, but I do wish I could help Prometheus, pardon him from his endless torment, and ask him why he did what he did. Though I can guess. It was because he cared about mortals. Many of us do not and see them as stepping stones because they are "lesser" beings to us.

I have made pleas to release Prometheus, but everyone would like to pretend the criminal doesn't exist after they have been jailed. It is more pleasant to see them as a faraway concept, one that is a number and not a suffering being. Plus, they all believe he is worthy of his current punishment, and I understand why.

I could not help him if I wanted to. He is locked away in the tutorial out there.

And that is why I put my hand behind my back. It is a silly reason, but it means a lot to me to hide my shame. It does not bother me, anyway. I just do not want to be asked about it and have the memories return.

I'm sorry for bringing it up.

I wish I could give you a pat on the back, Player. It is ok. I willingly told you this. You forced nothing from me. I hope now that everything is out in the open that you can understand why I will risk my life to help "unforgivable" criminals.

Aren't you scared, you'll get hurt one day?

Player, I know I will get hurt one day, and it will be worth it for all the days I was able to save those who everyone had given up on.