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"But, why?"
"No! Absolutely no! Nope. Nid!"
"But... come ooon, Lydia! It will be fun!"
"It will not. It was not, last time, and you... You have to stop doing that!"
"Why? I like it."
"Like you liked how warm and fierce those scrolls made you feel?"
"Oh, yeah... too bad J'Zargo didn't make others..."
"They were... Wrong. Just wrong. The mage was trying to kill you, I tell you..."
"He was not! He was experimenting and I helped! After all... I'm Dunmer, I don't care much about a little flame"
"But I do!"
"Then stay back and stop being so reckless! You always walk in front of me, always in the way of my spells... Sometimes, Lydia I think you have a death wish..."
"I have a death wish? I HAVE A DEATH WISH?! Remember me, please... Who's the one who said Let's see if chaurus eggs have some cool effects, before EATING one?"
"They do have cool effects!"
"They're poisonous!"
"Exactly!"
"You have to stop doing that... really, I... I can't take it anymore."
"Oh, Lydia... I'm touched. You worry about me. But, really, there is nothing to worry about. I'm just doing this to... test a theory!"
"A theory, uh? What theory? You want to see if a thing dropped from really high up falls down to the ground really hard?
Spoiler alert, my Thane: it does! It's not a theory, it's a fact. Things fall to the ground. People fall to the ground. The ground... It's not a thing that needs testing! It's not like you need a scientific team of thinkers and philosophers to discover that!"
"But... Think about it... why the ground? And are we attracted faster to it the more we fall? And what if I jumped and you threw a rock beside me at the same time? Would we hit ground at the same time? I want to know, Lydia!"
"No you don't! You'd be dead and you wouldn't know!"
"Not if I used the Shout!"
"But then you wouldn't be falling at the same speed, and the experiment would be invalidated... I can't believe I'm discussing this."
"You see? Discussion! Experiment! You want to know too!"
"I don't! I don't care! Nobody cares! What importance could it have? Things fall down fast! Congratulation Dragonborn! You really had a philosophical breakthrough!"
"I still think there could be something... I don't know... About the way we experience the same attraction to the..."
"The only attraction you experience is towards certain death!"
"Not true. I'm alive. And it also takes significantly less time to get down to Whiterun-"
"For you! I still have to climb down those 7000 steps, you know? And with all your useless junk in my backpack!"
"Oh, well, Lydia, after all what did you say to me when we first met? I am sworn to carry your burdens. Thanks!
Beware! Beware! The Dragonborn comes!"