JADE: drowning obviously would have been bad :p JADE: but disappearing wouldnt be much better! JADE: he would appear somewhere else, having made no progress on his personal quest JADE: his planet would still be polluted and he would be no closer to playing his song JADE: somehow he understood the only way was to conceive of a third option JADE: an idea beyond the simple binary set of outcomes before him JADE: and interestingly JADE: it was coming to this understanding which gave him the first glimpse of how to control the power JADE: he realized it wasnt himself that he needed to make disappear...