Great Power, Little Responsibility.

Jacky lay down on the beach, trying to ignore the loud robotic pounding of Cass's robots as he read a copy of I, Robot he had brought with him. He thought the coincidence was amusing.

He heard the other dwarfers talking about Jaxx. He heard his name used. He refused to get involved. This would sort itself out. Things sort themselves out all the time. I'm certainly not involved, he thought. No sir.

Evelina came over. She's just passing through, he hoped. She doesn't want to talk, she's probably very busy.

"Jacky?" she said to get his attention.

Jacky put his book down and tried to appear nonchalant, forgetting to bookmark his page in the process.

"Er, yeah?" he asked.

"A lot of people are trying to... well, they're talking about... you see, the thing is..." she stumbled.

"Jaxx." Jacky said, knowingly.

"Yeah. It'd mean a lot if you explained what happened." she said, hopeful.

Jacky sighed.

"Well, he didn't try to kill me. He was just trying to scare me to safety." he said.

Evelina smiled.

"Of course, he could have just told me to go to safety instead of having me fear for my life."

Evelina frowned.

"That's the thing about it, really. Jaxx doesn't think." Jacky said, bluntly.

"Hey, that's not-" Evelina started.

"Mind you..." Jacky interrupted. "Had he not been introduced to us when he was, we could have been killed by pleasure GELFs. But he didn't spend much thought on the decision to eat them."

"Eat them?" she repeated.

"Indeed." Jacky said. He decided not to linger on that point. "The problem with Jaxx is that he's got power, but he hasn't the responsibility to use it properly. He doesn't think."

Evelina was silent for a time.

"That's..." she started to say, but didn't finish.

Jacky didn't really know what to say. But he had a lingering feeling that he had made things worse.

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