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[demiurgos_girl]

Elaine doesn't know what to wish for. It bothers her in a way she can't put into words. There had to be something right? But everything she wanted was out of her reach, even in her own imagination. Any Lucifer she imagined would never live up to the real thing. Any Mona, or Michael. For the entire of the event so far, her room remained bare

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[jivitadana]

[OOC: Semi-placeholder! I'm still threading with our other thread too, I'm just slow today.

Minato was still sporting his butterfly wings, and they rested flat out against his back. All of his friends had really vivid imaginations.]

It's beautiful.

... I wanted to thank you for the other day, Elaine.

[He flew before, or rather he had floated up before while at home, but he never experienced anything quite like flying with wings.]

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[demiurgos_girl]

I miss it. [She puts aside the bud.]

You're welcome, Minato. I had fun, too.

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[jivitadana]

Mn. Understandable.

[He really had been grateful to her. There was no way he could pass up on the chance to fly, to do something that seemed impossible to do on a normal basis.]

Flying is something you normally can do, correct?

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[demiurgos_girl]

...It'll be gone again after the event.

Yeah. [She smiles.] It's one of my favorite things in the whole world.

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[jivitadana]

But it's here now. There's that.

[He smiled too.] I can see why. You feel free when you do?

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[demiurgos_girl]

Yeah... It was really beautiful. I should have shown someone...

As free as I could possibly be.

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[jivitadana]

Maybe there will be a chance later.

I think that counts for a lot.

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[demiurgos_girl]

To show people? What do you mean?

...What did you feel?

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[jivitadana]

Mn. To show people. Like you are now.

[He smiled at that a tiny bit more.]

The same way. Free. Or feeling like I can do anything.

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[demiurgos_girl]

But once the event is done... I just hate to think that Mhairi's just a memory now. Something imagined. [She catches more falling flowers, before the scene fades away.]

[One flower remains intact, however, and she holds it delicately.] Freedom is the... [She sighs, looks up at the ceiling.]

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[jivitadana]

But you've created it before, just the planet itself, right?

And is what...?

[She trailed off, and Minato had been curious as to how she was going to finish her statement. But if she didn't finish it, he also didn't mind. Talking about it couldn't have been easy either.]

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[demiurgos_girl]

[She shakes her head.] If I did that again, it wouldn't be the same.

[The thought is too difficult to put into words, though she stumbles through it haltingly, the idea deep enough that she doesn't want to let it go.] It's the... price of things. Freedom of movement is fine. Easy. But even then you give up security for it. Other freedoms cost more.

You can look at things you do and you are, and ask yourself, how much freedom is this worth giving up for?

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[jivitadana]

Because you're creating it anew?

[Minato considered her words for a moment.]

Everything comes at a price. Freedom is one of them. But everything should also be in moderation too.

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[demiurgos_girl]

Yeah.

I know. But... sometime's it's... I didn't have to die, you know. [And suddenly this is all coming out in a rush.] I could have let Mhairi die. If I did, I would have gotten my powers back, and I could have fought my mirror off, probably. But Mhairi was... mine. I couldn't let it die.

And I died for it instead.

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[jivitadana]

[Minato hadn't expected to hear that.]

... There isn't anything wrong in dying for what you wanted to protect.

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[demiurgos_girl]

I wanted to protect it. But I wanted to stay alive too. It hurt, what she did to me. I gave up a lot for... for nothing. Because it's what my conscience wanted me to do. [She's sort of staring at the flower now, and she knows she's not being crystal clear. But she needs to get this off her chest.]