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[hok_ton]

One of my childsoldiers died yesterday. He was an old man, with a loving family and adopted children. I hadn't seen him in over thirty years, yet he still wanted me there. Strange

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[mordredeschain]

A choice is summat I never had, and would have been glad of. But mayhaps that's just me.

[hok_ton]

Perhaps. But you speak from experience, which is worthy.

Tell me, are you some kind of childsoldier as well?

[mordredeschain]

I am a wanderer in the wastes, and have been my whole life. My kin care not for me, the wasteland is so harsh and o! Discordia.

[hok_ton]

So you have been abandoned by your kind and left to fend for your own? Tch. Parents are the same in all universes, it seems.

[mordredeschain]

And I spent most of my life in the worst possible place, too, for my born universe was coming down.

[hok_ton]

Are you trapped in a doomed universe now, or have you excaped it?

[mordredeschain]

I have fled from it indeed, say true and say thankya.

[hok_ton]

That is good. Dying universes are not pleasant places to be.

[mordredeschain]

And you'd know that from experience, or mere surmise?

[hok_ton]

Hmm. My universe was destroyed once, and I have been on mad planets and participated in governments that are self destructing. So yes, I suppose I do have 'experience'.

[mordredeschain]

And how did you survive a dying universe, sai?

[hok_ton]

I was elsewhere when it was destroyed.

[mordredeschain]

Lucky you. Did you see the beginning o' the end at least?

[hok_ton]

No. The situation was...strange. Nothing like the destruction of planets I am familiar with.

[mordredeschain]

I've watched reality as it starts to fall apart, sai. You have no idea just how strange things can get.

[hok_ton]

Heh. I imagine you are right.