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[alangabriel]

Ah, ah, ah! It's happened again! How wonderful.

A flea and a fly in a flue
were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee." Said the flea, "Let us fly."
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

Nothing really ends here, does it.

Comments

[justitiae]

Ogden Nash.

I find things end just as they begin to get interesting.

[alangabriel]

Who?

You're correct about that. But there's a fly in the ointment if I remember everything, isn't there? Are these Memories at work? Ha. Haha.

[justitiae]

Just a man, one who no longer belongs to us here.

It is not about remembering any longer, but learning where you now stand. Welcome to Purgatory.

[alangabriel]

Who are you, to know that? You have Memories of the world before forty years ago?

It was never about remembering. Paradigm City is and has only ever been what it is.

[justitiae]

My name is Ryuuzaki, and I hold all my memories. There is no Paradigm City in the realm I was from, and here it only exists in your own memories.

You have been taken from your place to repent. Your name?

1/3

[alangabriel]

Not... Paradigm City?

2/3

[alangabriel]

3/3

[alangabriel]

Alan Gabriel.

[justitiae]

No, like I said, Purgatory.

A pleasure Gabriel-san. You must have sinned terribly Alan Gabriel.

[alangabriel]

Oh, there are many who belong here before I.

[justitiae]

There is room for plenty, you see. Apparently like Hell you need no reservation.

[alangabriel]

I wonder who is in charge of Purgatory?

[justitiae]

A force even the overseers do not know I am sure. If you wish to put a name to the one pulling the strings it is Thylas.

[alangabriel]

Thylas. I see.

It's a pleasure. Ryuuzaki.

[justitiae]

The same Alan Gabriel. Best of luck in your adjusting.