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[elysianwreck]

.............Shouldn't. Shouldn't get my hopes up.
But now they're in my head.

He's never been this cruel before. Putting me in a dollhouse. Oh...
Look. There's other puppets, now.

It was only a matter of time, I guess.
But what--?

There has never been anything real about this.

There's people here. I haven't. There's been nobody except the others but they

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[strayofthevally]

You sound a lot like . . .

Are you okay?

[elysianwreck]

I guess.
This is better than being. Substance.

You can see the sky here, did you see? And water, too. I think it's the ocean. I've heard of it.

[strayofthevally]

Yeah. It's really pretty. All orange and pink and stuff. Even Up Above, you couldn't see it this clearly because of all the buildings in the way and I've never seen the ocean before at all.

Are you from Down Below?

[elysianwreck]

Yeah...
You could see the sky where I was born. It was in the sky. Mountains. My mother loved it. She named me after...

I guess you could call it that. It was below everything and they.

I don't know if I'm still there.

[strayofthevally]

Named you after what?

Oh.

[elysianwreck]

Cloud.