☼ Fifth Flame ☼ [accidental video]

[forged_anew]

[The camera flickers on with a violent crash and the dreamberry falls to the ground to the sounds of static and yelling and other violent thuds, perhaps of something being thrown--]

It's not fair!

[Fire, just a flicker of it on the edge of the screen that is now showing mostly the (rebuilt) apartment ceiling. Nothing burning, at least, just a

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[Voice]

[i_love_head]

Her?

Someone you know went home, didn't they?

[Voice]

[forged_anew]

...my girlfriend.

[Voice]

[i_love_head]

[A growl, then the smack-rattle of a fist pounding perhaps a table. Grumbling.] The nerve of this place to get in the way of love like that. I hate it!

[A few breaths to calm down.] I'm sorry about your girlfriend. It sounds like things were tough for you guys even when she was here.

[Voice]

[forged_anew]

[whoa that was a much stronger reaction than expected. then again, he's in a violent mood right now; he doesn't mind at all]

Yeah...

Thing is, it would have worked out, I know that... if we'd had more time. [and that is the most frustrating, upsetting part of all because she'd just been brought here from the wrong time.]

[Voice]

[i_love_head]

[He's an obsessed firm believer in love. Couples being separated by fickle magical worlds offends his sentiments.

Scoffs.] We wouldn't have to worry about these things if we could just go home. Save us the trouble.

[Voice]

[forged_anew]

Seriously...

[...]

Hey, do you know if it's true that, when you go home again from here, nothing's changed? I mean... no time passes. That's what people keep telling me but...

[Voice]

[i_love_head]

Can't say I know for sure. I've never gone and come back to know for sure. [He wouldn't want to do the latter anyway.]

I heard that when we leave we're still "there" somehow. I don't know if the "uses" in our place are clones or some magic trick, but I still don't like it.

[Voice]

[forged_anew]

...I think I prefer the difference in time theory.

[He can't afford to have disappeared for several months. His world can't afford for him to have disappeared. Not that he doesn't trust his friends but... He can't stand the thought of having abandoned everything they'd worked so hard for]

[Voice]

[i_love_head]

They're supposed to work at same time. We're all taken from different points in time, but these clones or whatever fill in the void we leave there until we go back.

[More serious.] And we will. Somehow.

[Voice]

[forged_anew]

Clones? Like... copies? [he makes a sudden, frustrated and angry noise, the sound of something being thrown or punched perhaps.] That's not good enough.

I need to get back. Now.

[Voice]

[i_love_head]

[A scoff.] You think I'd still be here if I found the way out? I have someone I have to get back to too.

[Voice]

[forged_anew]

I'm not accusing you.

But I can't afford to have some copy screwing things up. Enough people have died.

[Voice]

[i_love_head]

[A sarcastic chuckle.] There's nothing to accuse me of anyway. I was agreeing with you.

Died over what?

[Voice]

[forged_anew]

A war.

[Voice]

[i_love_head]

A... war...?

[Doesn't say anything else for a while. How do you answer that anyway?]

...Sorry.

[Grits his teeth, then starts in a more serious, urgent tone.]

All the more reason we need to figure out how to get out of here on our own. We can't rely on this place to kick us out whenever it gets bored of us.

[Voice]

[forged_anew]

[he doesn't comment on the unneeded apology, but agrees wholeheartedly with that plan.]

I've tried but no one seems to know anything.

If you find anything out though, you'll let me know?