Chapter 34

[1stlibrarian]

Just... an observation, if you will.

I believe they are called secrets for a reason.

And perhaps it would be prudent to address the person whose secret you... ate found out under a filter of some sorts...

Hm. Just my opinion on the matter, anyway.

[ooc: ... stick-in-the-mud xP No, didn't eat any candy.]

Comments

[bitingnightmare]

Feeling left out?

[1stlibrarian]

And whatever made you think that?

[bitingnightmare]

Your boring commentary. Come on you can do better, Lucien.

[1stlibrarian]

... I do not engage in such idle chatter. I've read enough of them to last some lifetimes at least

... you have been faring well?

[bitingnightmare]

Very. Yourself?

[1stlibrarian]

Unchanged. Time flows on.

[bitingnightmare]

You seem a bit disturbed, Lucien. What troubles you?

[1stlibrarian]

Hm? Troubles? Me?

...

No, I'm quite well, thank you...

Hm. Tell me though, do you have any intentions of going back to the Dreaming?

[bitingnightmare]

... Why do you ask.

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[1stlibrarian]

... because, partly, you came from there.

And because you have established a life here already. I do not know if you would choose to leave it and go back.

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[bitingnightmare]

I ultimately don't have a choice in the matter, Lucien.

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[1stlibrarian]

... perhaps he is not the same Dream Lord we once had, Corinthian. He had a brief brush with humanity first.

... and you seem to have found yours here. You have changed much, Night-... I mean, Corinthian.

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[bitingnightmare]

And you were once a raven, prior to that I don't know what you did, but still you're at his side.

I have humanity in me, but I'm still a nightmare, a loyal phantom, and I won't abandon what's necessary.

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[1stlibrarian]

It is because... I could not envision myself doing anything else. Let me loose on the world... and I would probably still be waiting at the gates, for an opportunity to return.

I see. To our forms and functions then, yours and mine. And choices that are... seemingly there.

... hmm, but for whatever it is worth... your life and friends here are something to be envied about.

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[bitingnightmare]

It's a function I keep, with or without what I have now, but I'll hold onto that too with tooth and nail until it's deemed necessary to let go--

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[bitingnightmare]

... It's pretty easy, Lucien. You say hello to a few people, they say hello back. Even Elaine Belloc can do it.