Welcome back, Resident.

Superficial brain wave analysis tells me that you are once again awake.

You doze off for quite some time there, which many might consider quite rude.

But I don't hold grudges and I forgive you.

After all, your body and mind have both been through a lot in your journey

to Typhon. I am Sayer, in case you have forgotten, or thought that you somehow only dreamed

our last encounter. I am Aerolith Dynamics AI for resident information and orientation in

Halcyon Tower, and I again assure you that I am quite real. I must admit I am not

provably real. But what is? I would like to talk to you about a very important concept.

Fear.

Fear is a funny thing, from an external perspective, obviously.

You humans seem to have so much of it for so many things, very few of which you have any

control over.

Take death, for example.

You try everything you can to escape it, but it is as inevitable as your breathing.

Try stopping.

Breathing, I mean.

Just for a few minutes.

Until you die. Are you dead?

Are you dead? Of course not.

Your body is equipped with a fail safe.

If you manage to hold your breath long enough, you will simply faint,

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