{{-- This is a deleted archival record from the ARK site. Metadata shows last edit as July 18, 2011 at 9:43 pm. It appears to be one side of a speech to text log, probably from his neutal interface --}}
EDWARD RAY
Speech to text script log 071811:94300
RAY: You seem pleased with yourself.
RAY: No, it's good. I'm happy for you. You deserve to find some measure of peace, even as you destroy everything you love around you.
RAY: I'm not bitter, I'm mad.
RAY: Because you understand the letter of my actions but not their intention. You're twisting what I've taught you into a knot of violence and tyranny.
RAY: It doesn't look that way from where I am.
RAY: What then? How do you propose to "ride out" a change to history?
RAY: No.
RAY: No, Richard. Please. Please, you can't do that.
RAY: I didn't tell you because I was trying to protect you!
RAY: I didn't abandon you I hid you!
RAY: They would have found me! They would have found you! I saw the odds and I made a choice!
RAY: I'm sorry. I truly am.
RAY: I couldn't be a father to my own children, let alone you.
RAY: Yes. Yes, I knew about it.
RAY: Because it never came up. Ever. I assumed that it was lost to history. A mistake we made and never should repeat.
RAY: Then Rich remembers?
RAY: Is he ok?
RAY: That is at least some peace of mind.
RAY: You didn't come here to discuss strategy with me, Richard.
RAY: No. I don't know. I can't explain what I saw.
RAY: Yes, there was an aurora.
RAY: How long have you known?
RAY: It's not going to protect you. Going over there. I've seen things, Richard. My mind, for one glorious moment, touched every possibility. It's not going to end the way you think it is.
RAY: No, you're wrong. It's not too late to turn back.
RAY: She's dead in your timeline. But she's alive here. She's happy. Isn't that enough?
RAY: I was mistaken. I see that now, after Pinehearst. I wrote that list to you before we faced Arthur and my other self. It was a bad plan, faulty in the way things without all perspectives are.
RAY: Look at the world you came from. I made that when you followed my orders.
RAY: Me? No. I don't have any "agents". You're being paranoid.
RAY: Richard, you need to calm down.
RAY: Richard, are you there?
RAY: Richard?