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[adventlead]

Who wants to hear a story?

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[lyraofoxford]

A true story, or something you made up?

[adventlead]

True stories aren't any fun.

[lyraofoxford]

They can be. Maybe you just don't know any true events that are interesting enough.

[adventlead]

Do you?

[lyraofoxford]

Yes.

[adventlead]

I'll tell you one if you tell me one later.

[lyraofoxford]

All right.

[adventlead]

I don't know where she awoke, but there is a lady who travels the planets. She's slept next to stars and cooled down near giant rocks, silent except whatever sound they have out there. She's seen weirder things than I can imagine, like transparent dragons who sleep in the waters of ice planets whose life has long ended.

[lyraofoxford]

Who is the lady?

[adventlead]

Jen... Her name is Jen.

[lyraofoxford]

Who is she to you?

[adventlead]

Mother. I don't have those memories, but I can imagine it and it must have been different.

[lyraofoxford]

Your mother... All right. How about I tell you a story about my mother?

[adventlead]

Yeah. What's your mother like?

[Private]

[lyraofoxford]

The most remarkable and terrible woman I ever knew. She got everything she ever wanted, except for me. She didn't want me, and when she did, it was too late. I ran away.

[Private]

[adventlead]

Why didn't she want you?