There's only four things it can do in the end, according to all the books here, and three of them are destructive. That's not ... that isn't what it should be.

[ ... ah. maybe mio was right, when she said this might be a passion of his. that's... still strange to think, when for a long time it was enough to simply exist. ]

Even if you take out the more fantastical things, the ones that the people who don't understand it wouldn't be able to think of... none of the books say anything about making things that are meant to help. Nothing like medicines, nothing like antidotes, just poisons. The closest things are the growth potions, but those aren't...

[ there's a point in all this, if he can come back around to it. ]

... Adela didn't give me a straight answer when I asked if this all was real, back when we first got here. But from what we saw earlier ... If she does control a lot more of what happens in this place than we thought...

Does she just ... not get it? Or is the point to encourage us to hurt each other, even when she keeps saying things about wanting us to be happy here?

[ if she's trying to build a community, one that cannibalizes itself isn't going to last long. ]