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[darker_alice]

A random person.

No reason to have one I trust yet, and such sacrifices were necessary in my world as well.

[beatssuperpaper]

Oh, that must have been an interesting world.

[darker_alice]

It was fairy violent and dangerous if that's what you mean.

[beatssuperpaper]

Among other things, I was refering to that possibility, yes.
To some, 'May you live in interesting times' may be a curse. To others, the curse is the threat of the opposite.

[darker_alice]

Good guess then.

Then I suppose some might think my times are interesting, but I think that notion is a bit mad without knowing the exact circumstances.

[beatssuperpaper]

Oh, might I inquire about these circumstances?

[darker_alice]

Well, "real" life, as one might call it, was spent in a world not too different from this one as far as what seemed to constitute normal. One dressed accordingly, stayed within their social status, and altogether did not talk about unpleasant things.

Of course, when said unpleasant things happen to you and you have no real way of coping, there's a place for you too: an asylum. Ten years in one of those places is enough to drive anyone who wasn't already mad on the brink. Now for me, there was really only one way to cope, and that was restoring my fragmented mind by visiting the world I created in my youth, called Wonderland. The horrors experienced there is enough to make one's hair go white, but I made my place and won it back through...less savory means.

If she'd be more honest, she'd probably have to say she'd find it thrilling.

[beatssuperpaper]

That does sound unpleasant, true. It must have been interesting to break whatever opposition there was, to win it back, though.

Re: If she'd be more honest, she'd probably have to say she'd find it thrilling.

[darker_alice]

Well, all the hassle and life risking bits were enough to stop one's heart.

Breaking the opposition, well, I rather liked that part actually.

[beatssuperpaper]

Understandably so. I am rather fond when the plan of the current opposition is foiled, their dreams shattered, their little world falling apart.

A good way to spend the day, at the very least.

[darker_alice]

Rather brutal, but then so is this world too.

That was spread over several months, actually.

[beatssuperpaper]

Oh, it seems to be, with the milkman and Grady and their little plots.

Even better, as far as I am concerned. If s truggle doesn't get boring, I for one am fine with it lasting centuries.

[darker_alice]

Milkman? What about him?

That would be rather long, and I'm still human. Can't stay alive for that long.

[beatssuperpaper]

Just him poisoning the milk of the city, and being seen as a danger even by those controlling the town.

Ah, in this place, you might. You cannot die here. Permanently, that is.

[darker_alice]

So even within the manipulators there is tension. That's something to look into.

So I heard. Dying temporarily would be much better than being droned.

[beatssuperpaper]

Quite the tension. Some of them also brainwash other manipulators, in some circumstances.

Dying is also a good way to cure wounds, in this place.